# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-matthews-q25514
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:51:04.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-matthews-q25514"
name: "Bruce Matthews"
slug: "bruce-matthews-q25514"
description: "Bruce Rankin Matthews is an American former professional football guard, center, offensive tackle, and long snapper who played 19 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He spent his entire career playing for the Houston / Tennessee Oilers / Titans. Highly versatile, Matthews played every position on the offensive line throughout his NFL career, starting in 99 games as a left guard, 87 as a center, 67 as a right guard, 22 as a right tackle, 17 as a left tackle, and was the long snapper on field goals, extra points, and punts. Having never missed a game due to injury, Matthews' 293 NFL games started is the third most of all time, behind quarterbacks Brett Favre and Tom Brady."
tagline: "American football player and coach (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Matthews.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1961-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.337110481586402
  historical:           9.046841333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2323127/"
    handle:    "nm2323127"
sources:
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    title: "Bruce Matthews"
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    title: "بروس ماثيوز (لاعب كورة القدم الامريكيه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruce Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Matthews"
    title: "Bruce Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Matthews"
    title: "Bruce Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Matthews_(football_am%C3%A9ricain)"
    title: "Bruce Matthews (football américain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Matthews"
    title: "Bruce Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ブルース・マシューズ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3772837"
    title: "Bruce Matthews"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump