currentpositionplain finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date alt statseason pfr undratedteam heightin death_place heightft undraftedyear number image college debutteam statlabel caption nflnew birth_place weight dbf highschool article_title
offensive tackle , defensive tackle 1953 10 october 1983 1946 79 18 dallas texans -lrb- nfl -rrb- 10 january 1926 grigg pictured in uniform in a publicity shot 1952 grigch20 chicago rockets 2 ore city , texas 6 1946 48 , 79 chubby grigg , american football tackle.png university of tulsa buffalo bisons games played extra points made grigg during his cleveland browns career chubbygrigg/2515407 el dorado , arkansas 294 griggfor01 longview high school chubby grigg

chubby grigg

forrest porter `` chubby '' grigg , jr. -lrb- january 10 , 1926 -- october 10 , 1983 -rrb- was an american football tackle who played seven seasons in the all-america football conference -lrb- aafc -rrb- and national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- in the 1940s and 1950s .
grigg grew up in texas and attended the university of tulsa in oklahoma .
after graduating from college , he joined the aafc 's buffalo bisons , where he played for a year .
grigg was then sent to the chicago rockets in 1947 , but stayed only one season before joining the cleveland browns in 1948 .
the browns won all of their games and the aafc championship that season .
cleveland again won the aafc championship in 1949 before the league dissolved and the browns were absorbed by the more established nfl .
grigg continued to play for the browns in 1950 and 1951 ; the team won the nfl championship in 1950 and reached the title game but lost the following year .
grigg spent a final season with the dallas texans before retiring from football .
after football , grigg owned and ran a successful restaurant in texas for 18 years , retiring in the early 1970s as his health began to falter .
in late 1976 , he was arrested after shooting and killing his son michael , who was taking drugs and had been convicted of burglary the year before .
grigg was tried for the crime in 1977 and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter ; he was sentenced to five years of probation .
he died in 1983 .
