Matt Millen
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| Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | March 12, 1958 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 250 lb (113 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Whitehall (PA) | ||||||||
| College: | Penn State | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1980 / Round: 2 / Pick: 43 | ||||||||
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| Interceptions: | 9 |
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| Sacks: | 11.0 |
| Fumble recoveries: | 8 |
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Matthew George "Matt" Millen (born March 12, 1958) is an American former National Football League linebacker, and former executive. Millen played for the Oakland Raiders, the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins. In Millen's 12-year NFL playing career, he played on four teams that won the Super Bowl. Millen won a Super Bowl ring with each of the three teams for which he played; moreover, he won a Super Bowl ring in each of the four cities in which he played (the Raiders won championships in both Oakland and Los Angeles during his tenure).
After his playing career, Millen was President and chief executive officer of the Detroit Lions from 2001 until week 4 of the 2008 NFL season. His eight-year tenure as head of the franchise led to the worst eight-year record in the history of the modern NFL (31-84, a .270 winning percentage), and resulted in his termination on September 24, 2008. Millen assembled the personnel and coaching staff of the 2008 Lions, which became the first team to go 0-16, a single-season record that remains the worst in NFL history.
Following his NFL career, he was a football commentator for several national television and radio networks. His last job before joining the Lions was as a member of the number two broadcast team for NFL on Fox, as well as being the color commentator for Monday Night Football on Westwood One. On February 1, 2009, he joined the NBC broadcast team for pre-game analysis of Super Bowl XLIII. He has also been employed by ESPN as an NFL analyst, and by NFL Network as a color commentator on Thursday Night Football. Millen was an analyst for ESPN's college football coverage, paired in 2013 with Joe Tessitore. In 2015 Millen returned to Fox NFL and debut on Big Ten Network.
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