page_title: List of Greek Americans
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: List of Greek Americans / List / Sports / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: Chris Maragos, Seahawks vs Rams 12.29.13
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable Greek Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Greek descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
  Famous Greek Americans
  Spiro Agnew • Olympia Snowe • George Stephanopoulos • Jennifer Aniston • Alexander Frey • Tina Fey • Pete Sampras • Olympia Dukakis • Michael Dukakis • Zach Galifianakis
context_section_description: Harry "the Golden Greek" Agganis¹ - college football star and 1st-ever All-American at Boston University.  Drafted by the Cleveland Browns but turned down the offer to play baseball for the Boston Red Sox.
  Steve Alexakos - played OL in college for San Jose State and then NFL for Denver Broncos (1970) and New York Giants (1971).
  Dee Andros (born Demosthenes Konstandies "Dee" Andrecopoulos) - American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.  Brother of Plato Andros.
  Plato Andros (Plato Gus Andrecopoulos) - college All-American guard for the University of Oklahoma. He played four years in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals. Brother of Dee Andros.
  Zach Collaros - quarterback for the University of Cincinnati football team
  Jim Eliopulos - NFL player for the New York Jets
  Chris Farasopoulos - NFL player, played for the [[New York Jets
  Alex Holmes - NFL tight end for the St. Louis Rams, mother is Greek
  Alex Karras - NFL player with the Detroit Lions, wrestler and actor
  Lou Karras - NFL player with the Washington Redskins, older brother of Alex Karras
  Ted Karras - NFL player with the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, older brother of Alex Karras
  Jim Karsatos - Ohio State QB in 1980s
  Niko Koutouvides - NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos and New England Patriots
  Bill Mackrides - QB for the Philadelphia Eagles. He led them to 2 NFL championships in 1948 and 1949.
  Chris Maragos - NFL safety for Super Bowl champions Seattle Seahawks.
  Archie Matsos  (Archimidis Matsos) - All-American linebacker at Michigan State in 1950s. Played in the AFL (pre-merger) for the Buffalo Bills, Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos and San Diego Chargers.
  Joe Panos - NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills 1994–2000 (birth name Zois Panagiotopoulos)
  Petros Papadakis - host of various sports shows on radio, former college football tailback and team captain at USC 1996–2000.
  Tony Pashos - former NFL offensive lineman for six teams, including with the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars.
  Lonnie Paxton - NFL New England Patriots long-snapper 2001–2003
  Peter Philipakos - Soccer player, formerly of Olympiacos F.C.
  Pete Pihos - NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles (Pro Football Hall of Fame). Is the only NFL player to have been named All-Pro on both offense and defense in the same year.
  Fred Smerlas - NFL player for the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots
  Alex Spanos - NFL owner of the San Diego Chargers
  A. G. Spanos - named President of Business Operations for the San Diego Chargers in 2015.  Grandson of Alex Spanos.  
  Dean Spanos - President and CEO of San Diego Chargers. Son of Alex Spanos.
  Frank Stams {Stamoulis} - defensive lineman for University of Notre Dame, including their 1988 National Championship team. He was converted to linebacker in the NFL, where he played for the Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland Browns and Kansas City Chiefs.
  Matt Stover - NFL player, kicker for Baltimore Ravens
  Harry Theofiledes - backup QB for Washington Redskins in 1968.
  Garo Yepremian - NFL player (Greek Cypriot origin)
  Gust Zarnas - NFL player with the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers 1938–1940
caption: Chris Maragos NFL safety for the Seattle Seahawks
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