:Lou Cordileone

{{Short description|American football player (born 1937)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Lou Cordileone

| image = Lou Cordileone (Taps 1960).png

| image_size =

| alt =

| caption = Cordileone at Clemson in 1959

| currentteam =

| number = 51, 74, 79

| position = Guard

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|8|4|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lbs = 250

| high_school = Union City (NJ) St. Michael's

| college = Clemson

| draftyear = 1960

| draftround = 1

| draftpick = 12

| afldraftyear = 1960

| afldraftround = 1

| afldraftpick = First Selections

| pastteams =

• New York Giants ({{nfly|1960}})
• San Francisco 49ers ({{nfly|1961}})
• Los Angeles Rams ({{nfly|1962}})
• Pittsburgh Steelers ({{nfly|1962}}–{{nfly|1963}})
• New Orleans Saints ({{nfly|1967}}–{{nfly|1968}})

| highlights =

• Third-team All-American (1959)
• First-team All-ACC (1959)

| pfr = CordLo20

}}

Louis Anthony Cordileone (born August 4, 1937) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman, primarily guard, who in nine years played six seasons{{Cite news|url=https://www.canalstreetchronicles.com/2017/6/24/15860056/countdown-to-new-orleans-saints-kickoff-history-of-no-79-lou-cordileone-emanuel-zanders-bryce-harris|title=Countdown to Saints Kickoff: A History of No. 79|work=Canal Street Chronicles|access-date=September 2, 2018}} in the National Football League (NFL), for five different teams. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected in the first round (twelfth overall) of the 1960 NFL draft.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}}.

Cordileone is best known for being traded in 1961 from the New York Giants to the San Francisco 49ers for quarterback Y. A. Tittle.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/y-a-tittle-nfl-legend-and-pro-football-hall-of-famer-passes-away-at-age-90/|title=Y.A. Tittle, NFL legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at age 90|work=CBSSports.com|access-date=September 2, 2018|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://theathletic.com/123238/2017/10/10/y-a-tittle-was-the-very-portrait-of-a-certain-time-and-place-in-the-brutal-enduring-sport-of-football/|title=Y.A. Tittle was the very portrait of a certain time and...|last=Spander|first=Art|work=The Athletic|access-date=September 2, 2018}} At the time, Tittle was 34 years old and a 4-time Pro Bowler. Cordileone was quoted as reacting "Me, even up for Y. A. Tittle? You're kidding",{{cite journal|last1=Fimrite|first1=Ron|title=49ers Quarterback Y. A. Tittle November 22, 1954|journal=Sports Illustrated|date=September 2, 1996|volume=35|issue=10|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1996/09/02/217050/49ers-quarterback-ya-tittle-november-22-1954|access-date=August 14, 2016}} and later remarked that the Giants traded him for "a 42-year-old quarterback".{{cite news|last1=Wentworth|first1=Bridget|title=Tittle didn't want Giants trade|url=http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/dorfman/index.ssf/2009/09/tittle_didnt_want_giants_trade.html|access-date=August 17, 2016|work=The Star-Ledger|date=September 22, 2009}}

His stay in San Francisco was short-lived, as he went to the Rams in 1962, where he played only 2 games, before moving to Pittsburgh, playing 26 games until the end of the 1963 season. After a 3-year hiatus, he joined the expansion team New Orleans Saints for their first two seasons, 1967 and 1968, as offensive guard and defensive tackle. In his last season, he fumbled once, and returned an interception for 7 yards, after having recovered three fumbles in his first two pro seasons.

In 2013 Cordileone starred in the TV Land reality show Forever Young.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvland.com/shows/forever-young |title=Forever Young : Official Website : TV Land : Laugh More |access-date=February 17, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218042049/http://www.tvland.com/shows/forever-young |archive-date=February 18, 2013 }}