By the following spring, Lyle Alzado was dead. He was born on April 3, 1949 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of an Italian-Spanish father, Maurice, and a Jewish mother, Martha. The family moved to ...

On August 12, 1979, the Browns traded for Lyle Alzado. Alzado actually made it to the NFL after benefitting from one of the most fortuitous automobile breakdowns in history. The story goes that a ...