databasefootball years coaching_years birth_place teams coaching_teams article_title position honors birth_date nfl pfr number draftedpick college probowls draftedround draftedyear
randlson01 1959 -- 1960 1961 -- 1966 1967 -- 1968 1968 1969 1970 1977 1979 -- 1983 1971 -- 1973 1974 -- 1975 1976 -- cohasset , virginia chicago cowboys washington redskins cardinals st. louis cardinals san francisco 49ers dallas east military academy marshall carolina -lrb- wr -rrb- east carolina virginia massanutten sonny randle
 wide receiver ap 1st team all-pro '' ' -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , upi , and sporting news '' ' 6 january 1936 ran387604 randso00 88 , 83 218 virginia 4 -rrb- -lrb- 1960 , 1961 , 1962 , 1965 19 1958
sonny randle

ulmo shannon `` sonny '' randle , jr. -lrb- born january 6 , 1936 -rrb- is a sportscaster and former american football player and coach .
after playing college football at the university of virginia , randle played as a wide receiver in the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- from 1959 to 1968 for the chicago and st. louis cardinals before completing his career with the san francisco 49ers and the dallas cowboys .
in only his second season in the nfl , randle led the league in receiving touchdowns with 15 and was named first-team all-pro by the associated press -lrb- ap -rrb- , the sporting news and upi .
randle had 65 touchdown catches in 120 games during his career , currently placing him 12th on the nfl 's all-time td-per-game list -lrb- minimum 60 tds -rrb- .
his 65 td catches were also the most in the nfl during the 1960s ; don maynard caught 84 and lance alworth caught 77 in the american football league -lrb- afl -rrb- .
on november 4 , 1962 , randle had one of the biggest games statistically by a wide receiver in nfl history as he caught 16 passes for 256 yards in a game against the new york giants .
randle finished the 1962 season with 63 receptions for 1,158 yards and eight touchdown catches and was named second-team all-pro by upi .
randle once again passed the 1,000-yard receiving mark in 1963 , finishing with 1,014 yards on 51 catches , eight of which went for touchdowns .
after his retirement in 1968 , randle became an assistant coach at east carolina where , after one season , he became the pirates ' head coach , a job he held from 1971 through 1973 .
he then spent two years as head coach at his alma mater , the university of virginia -lrb- 1974 -- 1975 -rrb- , two seasons at massanutten military academy -lrb- 1976 -- 1977 -rrb- , and five seasons at marshall -lrb- 1979 -- 1983 -rrb- .
since the mid-1980s , randle has been active in sports broadcasting , participating in radio broadcasts of college football games as a color commentator in st. louis , virginia , and west virginia .
in 1991 he became president of s-r sports , a syndicated talk radio network based in virginia .
randle was inducted into the virginia sports hall of fame in 1991 .
