Gregory Duane Feasel (born November 7, 1958) is an American professional sports figure. He played in the

United States Football League The United States Football League (USFL) was a professional American football league that played for three seasons, 1983 through 1985. The league played a spring/summer schedule in each of its active seasons. The 1986 season was scheduled to be ...

(USFL) and

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(NFL) as an

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during the 1980s, and is currently the president and chief operating officer for the

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(MLB).

Biography

Born and raised in

Barstow, California Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. Located in the Inland Empire region of California, the population was 25,415 at the 2020 census. Barstow is an important crossroads for the I ...

, Feasel graduated from

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, and initially attended Barstow Junior College. He transferred to

Abilene Christian University Abilene Christian University (ACU) is a Private university, private Churches of Christ, Christian university in Abilene, Texas. It was founded in 1906 as ''Childers Classical Institute''. ACU is one of the largest private universities in the Sout ...

(ACU) in

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and he was later inducted as a member of the ACU Hall of Fame. His younger brother

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(1960–2012) also played at ACU and in the

(NFL). Unselected in the

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, Feasel failed to make an NFL team in his first three attempts. He played in the

(USFL) with the

Denver Gold The Denver Gold was a franchise in the United States Football League, an attempt to establish a second major professional American football, football league in the United States, playing a springtime season, from 1983 to 1985. The Gold played the ...

from 1983 to 1985, then in the NFL for the

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

and the

San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers were a professional American football team that played in San Diego from 1961 until the end of the 2016 season, before relocating to Los Angeles, where the franchise had played its inaugural 1960 season. The team is now ...

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

. Feasel joined the

organization in 1996 and became chief operating officer in 2012. In April 2021, he was named team president, a position that had been vacant since the 2010 death of the prior president,

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. Feasel and his wife, Lynn, have a daughter.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feasel, Greg 1958 births Living people People from Barstow, California Sportspeople from San Bernardino County, California American football offensive tackles Abilene Christian Wildcats football players Denver Gold players Green Bay Packers players San Diego Chargers players Colorado Rockies executives

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