Max Montoya

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Max Montoya
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Position: Guard
Personal information
Born: (1956-05-12) May 12, 1956 (age 67)
Montebello, California, U.S.
Height:6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight:295 lb (134 kg)
Career information
High school: La Puente (La Puente, California)
College: UCLA
NFL Draft: 1979  / Round: 7 / Pick: 168
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:223
Games started:195
Player stats at NFL.com

Max Montoya Jr. (born May 12, 1956) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 16 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins.

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Early life

Montoya who is of Mexican–American descent, attended La Puente High School [1] in La Puente, California. He was unable to play football or basketball his senior season due to a heart murmur. [2]

College career

Montoya was cleared to play football again [2] and began his college football career playing for Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC), a community college in Walnut, California. He did not start as a freshman, but after an outstanding sophomore season, he earned a football scholarship to UCLA, [2] where he would play for head coach Terry Donahue. [3] After redshirting for a year, [2] Montoya was a starter in 1977 as the Bruins posted a 7-4 record. In 1978, he was again a starter, earning All Pac-10 honors. [2] The Bruins in 1978 went 8-3-1, ended the season in both the AP and UPI Top 20 rankings and played to a 10-10 tie against Arkansas in the 1978 Fiesta Bowl. [4]

Professional career

Montoya was drafted in the 7th round (168th overall) of the 1979 NFL Draft. Montoya was a four-time Pro Bowl guard who played in two Super Bowls with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played 11 seasons for the Bengals, from 1979 to 1989, becoming a starter in his second season. He then played five seasons for the Los Angeles Raiders, starting in all but his final season. [5]

Personal life

After retiring from the NFL, Montoya invested in a restaurant franchise of Cincinnati-based Penn Station East Coast Subs and eventually owned four in northern Kentucky. [6] He is also a founder and silent partner of Montoya's Restaurant in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. [7] He also spent five years helping coach the Beechwood High School football team (including son Matthew, now a multimedia freelancer) in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. His daughter, Alison Montoya (a twin of Matthew), is a general assignment reporter and anchor for Cincinnati FOX affiliate WXIX [8] after previously working for WLWT. [9] [10]

Montoya is now semi-retired and lives with his wife, Patty, on a farm in Hebron, Kentucky, where he raises horses. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Max Montoya Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 WHITE, LONNIE (15 October 1993). "Montoya Still Game After 199 of Them : Raiders: Fifteen-year veteran will reach a milestone Monday night against Denver" – via LA Times.
  3. ↑ "Statistics" (PDF). www.uclabruins.com.
  4. ↑ "Statistics" (PDF). www.uclabruins.com.
  5. ↑ "Max Montoya". NFL.com.
  6. ↑ "Max Montoya - Still Serving Cincinnati - Penn Station East Coast Subs News". www.thefranchisemall.com.
  7. ↑ "Montoyas tackles Mexican with Kentucky hospitality". www2.cincinnati.com.
  8. ↑ "Reporter/Anchor Alison Montoya".
  9. ↑ Video on YouTube
  10. 1 2 "Full circle".
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