# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-matte
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:30.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-matte"
name: "Tom Matte"
slug: "tom-matte"
description: "Thomas Roland Matte, nicknamed \"Garbage Can\", was an American professional football running back who spent his entire 12-season career with the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and was selected by the Colts in the 1961 NFL draft and by the New York Titans in the 1961 AFL draft."
tagline: "Player of American football"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1970_Baltimore_Colts_team_photo_postcard_(Tom_Matte_crop).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: "1939-06-14"
deathDate: "2021-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.34
  momentum:             7.683100206374683
  historical:           4.636648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "توم مات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Matte"
    title: "Tom Matte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Matte"
    title: "Tom Matte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Matte"
    title: "Tom Matte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Matte"
    title: "Tom Matte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7816739"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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