Chuck Bednarik
American football player
Died when: 89 years 324 days (1078 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Charles Philip Bednarik (May 1, 1925 – March 21, 2015), nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL).
He has been ranked one of the hardest hitting tacklers in NFL history and was one of the league's last two-way players.
His November 20, 1960 tackle of Frank Gifford in an Eagles game against the New York Giants at Yankee Stadium, known simply as The Hit, is widely considered one of the hardest tackles and most notable plays in NFL history.
A Slovak American from the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, Bednarik played for the Philadelphia Eagles for his entire 13-year NFL career from 1949 through 1962.
In 1967, in his first year of eligibility, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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