University of Minnesota Athletics
Bob Stein - M Club Hall of Fame
Bob Stein
Football, 1966-68
HOF Class of 1997
A three-season Golden Gopher football player, Bob Stein collected a raft of honors.
He was a consensus first team All-American and All-Big Ten defensive end in both 1967 and 1968; a two-time Academic All-American and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.
Stein, who also kicked for the Gophers, broke the team record for career field goals and, with a 40-yarder in 1968, longest field goal. He helped the Gophers tie Indiana in 1967 for the Big Ten title. (Indiana got the Rose Bowl bid because it had been longer since its last trip.)
Stein was selected by Kansas City in the fifth round of the 1969 NFL draft. He played in all 14 regular season games in his first season with the Chiefs, and in Super Bowl IV, when they defeated the Minnesota Vikings.
He played three more seasons with the Chiefs, two with the Los Angeles Rams, and briefly for the San Diego Chargers and the Vikings. He retired after the 1975 season and became a successful lawyer and businessman, the first general manager and later the president of the NBA Minnesota Timberwolves.