# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-tardits
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:30:52.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-tardits"
name: "Richard Tardits"
slug: "richard-tardits"
description: "Richard Tardits, is a former American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL), and a former rugby union footballer for the United States national rugby union team. He held the record for most sacks in a career at the University of Georgia, until surpassed by David Pollack in 2004, and he was referred to as 'Le Sack' by fans because of his French birth."
tagline: "French rugby union footballer and American footballer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1965-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.347553333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Тардитс, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ريتشارد تارديتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tardits"
    title: "Richard Tardits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tardits"
    title: "Richard Tardits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tardits"
    title: "Richard Tardits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tardits"
    title: "Richard Tardits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tardits"
    title: "Richard Tardits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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