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Michael Strahan

American football player
Also known as: Michael Anthony Strahan
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Michael Strahan (born November 21, 1971, Houston, Texas, U.S.) is an American professional football player and television personality who, playing defensive end for the New York Giants, established himself as one of the premier pass rushers in the history of the National Football League (NFL). He later had a successful career as a TV host. (Read Walter Camp’s 1903 Britannica essay on inventing American football.) At age nine Strahan moved to Germany when his father,...

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