Including four seasons in which his team captured four AAFC titles, Graham played ten total seasons of professional football and made the league championship game all ten seasons, winning seven league titles. In his single season as a professional basketball player, the Rochester Royals today's Sacramento Kings also captured the league title. Thus, in 11 seasons as a professional athlete, Otto Graham's teams made the championship all eleven years, winning eight titles.
Midway through his career in , the NFL passed a rule requiring offensive lineman to wear jersey numbers , in order for the referees to identify an ineligible receiver ; this rule has since passed down to every other level of football. Unlike the more rigid numbering system that would go into effect in , players were not given a grandfather clause if they played in the league before , and Graham had to switch his jersey number from 60 to Although Graham was better known with number 60, the Browns retired his number 14 while 60 remains in circulation, currently worn by offensive lineman Steve Vallos.
While at Northwestern, Graham wore number Following his retirement, Graham served as head coach of the College All-Stars in their clash against the defending NFL champions, leading the squad to a convincing victory over the Detroit Lions. The following year, he accepted a full-time position as head football coach at the Coast Guard Academy , where he served for seven seasons, leading the team to an undefeated regular season campaign and a Tangerine Bowl appearance in Graham found time to return to professional football during the and seasons by moonlighting as a radio commentator for the American Football League 's New York Jets.
Between and , Graham coached the Washington Redskins , but whatever magic he had as an NFL player disappeared on the sidelines as the team recorded a mark of during that time period.
After resigning the Redskins' post in favor of the legendary Vince Lombardi , Graham returned as athletic director of the Coast Guard Academy before retiring at the end of Graham and Lombardi would be linked again when Graham underwent surgery for colorectal cancer in , the disease that claimed Lombardi's life seven years earlier. Graham subsequently became a vocal supporter of early detection of the disease. Graham, who had previously been diagnosed as being in the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease in , died of a heart aneurysm in Sarasota, Florida on December 17, At the funeral held days later, Graham's longtime friend, George Steinbrenner, fainted, leading to extensive media speculation that he was in ill health, but Steinbrenner lived another six years.
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