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American football player (1939–2021)

American football player

Michael Gene Lucci (December 29, 1939 – October 26, 2021) was an American professional footballlinebacker who played for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

He played for the Cleveland Browns for three seasons from 1962 to 1964 and nine seasons with the Detroit Lions from 1965 to 1973. Lucci played college football at Pittsburgh before transferring to Tennessee.

Early life

Lucci was born into an Italian-American family on December 29, 1939 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, near the steel mills of western Pennsylvania.

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He only played football for the first time as a high school senior. Lucci earned a football scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, and later transferred for his final three years to the University of Tennessee. He was named an All-American in 1961, and played in the College All-Star Game against the Green Bay Packers.^[1] He was named to the Southwest Confer