1960 Fleer football card of former player and coach Lou Saban. Saban played 4 years with legendary coach Paul Brown’s Cleveland Browns in the old All America Football Conference from 1946 through 1949 as a middle linebacker, and was team captain for the club, which dominated the AAFC. Saban joined the fledgling AFL as head coach of the Boston Patriots in 1960, but really made his name in coaching when he moved into the same position in Buffalo in 1962, eventually leading the Bills to 2 consecutive AFL titles. Saban was a coaching nomad after that, moving to Denver, then back to Buffalo in the 1970s where he resurrected the career of O.J. Simpson, featuring the Hall of Fame back in the offense. He also had stops at 7 different colleges as head coach, and briefly served as a vice president with baseball’s New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner. Saban died in 2009.
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