Dave Stalls

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Position:

Defensive end

Personal information

Date of birth:

September 19, 1955

Place of birth:

Madison, Wisconsin

Height:

6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)

Weight:

250 lb (113 kg)

Career information

High school:

Hamilton (OH) Taft

College:

Northern Colorado

NFL Draft:

1977 / Round: 7 / Pick: 191

Career history

Career highlights and awards

Third-team Little All-American (1975)
2x Super Bowl champion (XII, XVIII)

Career NFL statistics

Games played:	99
Player stats at NFL.com

Player stats at PFR

David Milton Stalls (born September 19, 1955) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Los Angeles Raiders. He played college football for the University of Northern Colorado and also played in the United States Football League for the Denver Gold.

Early years

Stalls attended Hamilton Taft High School and did not start playing football until 9th grade, because he used to focus on Ice hockey instead.

After not receiving much interest and writing letters to 40 prospective schools, he received a scholarship offer from Division II Northern Colorado University. He was a four-year starter at defensive tackle and received third-team Little All-American honors in 1975.^[1]

Professional career

Dallas Cowboys

Stalls was drafted in the seventh round (191st overall) of the 1977 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. In 1978, he was used mainly as a pass-rush specialist. In 1979, he started the first 12 games at left defensive tackle (replacing the retired Jethro Pugh) ahead of former first-round draft choice Larry Bethea, until being replaced by Larry Cole, after the Cowboys traded for John Dutton. He finished with 51 tackles and 5 unofficial sacks.^[2]

Ed "Too Tall" Jones unretired in 1980 and the Cowboys opened training camp with 8 quality defensive linemen, when they usually kept seven. The team decided to retain Bethea and Bruce Thornton instead, and traded him to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange for a 1981 seventh round pick (#173-Ron Fellows) and a 1982 fourth round pick (#101-Brian Carpenter).^[3]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded for Stalls to replace an injured defensive end Wally Chambers.^[4] In 1981, he was a backup end and defensive tackle used mostly on passing downs, until injuries to Bill Kollar and a Lee Roy Selmon's season ending knee injury, forced him to start 9 games at left defensive end.^[5]

In the 1982 strike shortened season, he led the team in sacks (6.5) ahead of the future hall of famer Selmon. The next year he had a contract holdout during training camp and asked for the Buccaneers to trade him to the Denver Broncos, in order to pursue his veterinarian interests in the offseason.^[6] Complicating matters was a tense relationship with head coach John McKay and the team's ownership, because of his NFL players' union activities.^[7]

Stalls ended up renegotiating his contract after the Broncos didn't accept giving up a fourth-round draft choice as part of the trade. He eventually reported to the team and had to pay $40,000 in fines for missing time.^[8] On October 18, he was waived after the Buccaneers were notified that he signed a future services contract with the Denver Gold of the United States Football League.^[9]

Los Angeles Raiders (first stint)

On November 10, 1983, needing help on the defensive line, the Los Angeles Raiders signed Stalls to a short-term contract after the Denver Gold agreed to loan him.^[10] Although he didn't have the size, he was used as a pass-rushing nose tackle where his quickness created mismatches in route to the Raiders winning Super Bowl XVIII.^[11]

Denver Gold (USFL)

Stalls took two weeks off after the Super Bowl to physically recover from the grind of the NFL season and joined training camp in February. In 1984, he led the team in sacks with 12.5 (sixth in the league) but his production started to decline halfway through the season because of his body exhaustion. On May 18, he announced his retirement to concentrate in his next career.^[12]

Los Angeles Raiders (second stint)

After sitting out the previous year attending veterinary school at Colorado State University, he was signed by the Los Angeles Raiders as a free agent on July 21, 1985.^[13] The team used him again as a pass-rush specialist from the nose tackle position. He was released on October 3.^[14]

Personal life

After football he experienced many careers such as marine biology at California State University, veterinary medical studies at Colorado State University, investment banking at Boettcher & Company and Stern Brothers, sales at MCI Telecommunications, youth advocacy with the Center for the New West, senior management with the City of Denver's Recreation Department, founder & executive director of The Spot (gang youth center), executive director of Aspen Youth Experience, President/CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, and currently the founder & executive director of the Street Fraternity in Denver, Colorado.

References

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Dallas Cowboys 1977 NFL draft selections

Tony Dorsett Glenn Carano Tony Hill Val Belcher Guy Brown Andy Frederick Jim Cooper David Stalls Al Cleveland Fred Williams Mark Cantrell Steve DeBerg Don Wardlow Greg Peters

Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl XII champions

1 Efren Herrera 11 Danny White 12 Roger Staubach 18 Glenn Carano 20 Mel Renfro 21 Doug Dennison 25 Aaron Kyle 26 Preston Pearson 31 Benny Barnes 33 Tony Dorsett 35 Scott Laidlaw 36 Larry Brinson 41 Charlie Waters 42 Randy Hughes 43 Cliff Harris 44 Robert Newhouse 46 Mark Washington 50 D. D. Lewis 53 Bob Breunig 54 Randy White (Co-MVP) 56 Thomas Henderson 57 Bruce Huther 58 Mike Hegman 59 Guy Brown 61 Jim Cooper 62 John Fitzgerald 63 Larry Cole 64 Tom Rafferty 65 Dave Stalls 66 Burton Lawless 67 Pat Donovan 68 Herbert Scott 70 Rayfield Wright 71 Andy Frederick 72 Ed "Too Tall" Jones 73 Ralph Neely 75 Jethro Pugh 77 Bill Gregory 79 Harvey Martin (Co-MVP) 80 Tony Hill 83 Golden Richards 86 Butch Johnson 87 Jay Saldi 88 Drew Pearson 89 Billy Joe DuPree

Head coach: Tom Landry

Coaches: Ermal Allen Mike Ditka Jim Myers Dan Reeves Gene Stallings Ernie Stautner Jerry Tubbs

Los Angeles Raiders Super Bowl XVIII champions

6 Marc Wilson 8 Ray Guy 10 Chris Bahr 11 David Humm 16 Jim Plunkett 20 Ted Watts 21 Cliff Branch 22 Mike Haynes 23 Odis McKinney 25 Irvin Phillips 26 Vann McElroy 27 Frank Hawkins 28 Cleo Montgomery 31 Derrick Jensen 32 Marcus Allen (MVP) 33 Kenny King 34 Greg Pruitt 36 Mike Davis 37 Lester Hayes 38 Chester Willis 40 Rick Berns 45 James Davis 46 Todd Christensen 47 Don Bessillieu 48 Kenny Hill 50 Dave Dalby 51 Bob Nelson 52 Jim Romano 53 Rod Martin 54 Darryl Byrd 55 Matt Millen 56 Jeff Barnes 57 Tony Caldwell 58 Jack Squirek 61 Dave Stalls 62 Reggie Kinlaw 64 Shelby Jordan 65 Mickey Marvin 66 Steve Sylvester 68 Johnny Robinson 70 Henry Lawrence 71 Bill Pickel 72 Don Mosebar 73 Charley Hannah 74 Archie Reese 75 Howie Long 76 Ed Muransky 77 Lyle Alzado 79 Bruce Davis 80 Malcolm Barnwell 82 Calvin Muhammad 83 Ted Hendricks 84 Derrick Ramsey 85 Dokie Williams 87 Don Hasselbeck 93 Greg Townsend

Head coach: Tom Flores

Coaches: Sam Boghosian Willie Brown Chet Franklin Larry Kennan Earl Leggett Bob Mischak Steve Ortmayer Terry Robiskie Art Shell Charlie Sumner Tom Walsh Ray Willsey

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