# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-spurrier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:52:51.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-spurrier"
name: "Steve Spurrier"
slug: "steve-spurrier"
description: "Stephen Orr Spurrier is an American retired football coach and player, who is also commonly referred to by his nicknames, the Head Ball Coach or the ol' Ball Coach. Spurrier was a college football quarterback with the Florida Gators, where he won the 1966 Heisman Trophy. The San Francisco 49ers selected him in the first round of the 1967 NFL draft, and he spent a decade playing in the National Football League (NFL) mainly as a backup quarterback and punter. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1986."
tagline: "American football player and coach (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Spurrier_ESPNWeekend2010-056.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: "1945-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.771304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/stevespurrieruf"
    handle:    "stevespurrieruf"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%DA%A4_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ستيڤ سپورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Spurrier"
    title: "Steve Spurrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Spurrier"
    title: "Steve Spurrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Spurrier"
    title: "Steve Spurrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "اسٹیو اسپورئیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7614020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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