Larry Grantham is an American Football player, born 1938.
A member of the "Ole Miss" Athletic Hall of Fame, he was a linebacker of the
University of Mississippi who came to the
New York Titans in the 1960 college draft and helped form the backbone of a
New York Jets defense that reached the playoffs in 1968 and 1969, and in 1968 captured the
American Football League championship and the
World Championship.
From his right outside linebacker spot, Grantham wrought havoc on opposing offenses. One of the Jets leading tacklers, he was named to the AFL All-Star team five times and played in eight league All-Star games. He was selected to the All-Time All- AFL second team.
He is one of only twenty players who were in the American Football League for its entire ten-year existence, and only seven AFL players who played their entire careers in one city. Grantham is a member of the All-time American Football League team, and a member of the American Football League Hall of Fame.
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