&sq=&lang=&file=File:Dsc_7746_40949950370_o_(50120819508).jpg) Robinson (left) receiving his Super Bowl ring at a ceremony held in 2018 | |||||||||||
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||
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| Born: | January 22, 1964 Monticello, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Leon (Tallahassee, Florida) | ||||||||||
| College: | Tennessee | ||||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1986 | ||||||||||
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Kevin Altona "Tony" Robinson (born January 22, 1964) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Super Bowl-winning Washington Redskins as a replacement member of their team during the 1987 players' strike. Along with other Redskins replacement players from that year, he was eventually awarded a Super Bowl ring.
Robinson played college football at Tennessee from 1982 to 1985. After spending his first two seasons as a backup, he guided the 1984 squad to a 7–4–1 record and an appearance in the Sun Bowl. He led the 1985 "Sugar Vols" squad through a difficult first half of the season, and was a Heisman Trophy candidate until blowing out his right knee during a close game against Alabama. A few weeks after the season, he was arrested in Knoxville on charges of distributing cocaine, critically damaging his prospects in the NFL. He went undrafted in the 1986 NFL draft.[1][2]
In 1987, during the strike, Robinson played in one game for the Redskins after starting replacement quarterback Ed Rubbert was injured. He led the Redskins' replacement players to an improbable 13–7 win over a Dallas Cowboys team that featured a number of players who had crossed the picket lines during the strike. His role was loosely portrayed by both Keanu Reeves and Michael Jace in the 2000 film The Replacements.[1][2]
- ^ a b "Tony Robinson, Vols Quarterback" Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, December 11, 2000, Albert Chen, Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ a b Keim, David (December 11, 2000). "Black History Month". Knoxville News Sentinel. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011.