Steven Cyril DeLong (July 3, 1943 – August 18, 2010) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

defensive lineman who played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and the

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(NFL). He played collegiately for the

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, and professionally for the San Diego Chargers and Chicago Bears. In

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with San Diego, he set a team record with 17 sacks, a mark which stood until

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had in 1980. DeLong was inducted into the

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in 2000. He was the father of professional football player

Keith DeLong Keith Allen DeLong (born August 14, 1967) is a former American football linebacker who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers from 1989 to 1993. He earned a Super Bowl ring in his rookie season, i ...

, who also played for the University of Tennessee.

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