Education
University of Illinois system.
University of Illinois system.
A center, he played college football at the University of Illinois, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Denver Broncos from 1961 through 1966, and later for several National Football League teams. He was an American Football League All-Star in 1964 and 1966. The restaurant has a selection of both Mexican & American food and has been open for 37 years now.
The former Houston Oilers center is a key figure in one of only two "game fixing" schemes the NFL has ever publicly acknowledged.
Both plots were unsuccessful, and the league proudly boasts—not necessarily naively—that no game has ever been fixed. Sturm, now a restaurant owner in a suburb south of Denver, says he was approached by a former teammate, then no longer in the league, and offered $10,000 to try to throw the December
5, 1971, game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Astrodome. lieutenant was Sturm"s only season with Houston in a 12-year professional career, and the offer was substantial, considering Oilers owner Bud Adams paid him just $30,000 that year.