# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-luck
# Generated: 2026-08-20T23:52:06.390Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-luck"
name: "Oliver Luck"
slug: "oliver-luck"
description: "Oliver Francis Luck is an American business executive and former professional football player. He is currently the executive director of the United Athletic Conference (football), a new NCAA Division I FCS conference starting play in 2023 as a football-only merger of the ASUN Conference and Western Athletic Conference. He was the CEO and Commissioner of the XFL until it suspended operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that, he was Director of Intercollegiate Athletes at West Virginia University (WVU), his alma mater, and an executive with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in charge of the organization's regulatory functions. Luck played football professionally as a quarterback for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers (1982–1986). He was also the first president and general manager of the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer (MLS). Under his watch, the Dynamo won the MLS Cup in 2006 and 2007."
tagline: "American football player and sports executive (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oliverluck.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1960-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.92
  momentum:             10
  historical:           3.734881333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/OliverLuckXFL"
    handle:    "OliverLuckXFL"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "اوليڤير لوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Luck"
    title: "Oliver Luck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Luck"
    title: "Oliver Luck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Luck"
    title: "Oliver Luck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7087672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations