Jim Osborne (American football)

{{Short description|American football player (born 1949)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Use American English|date=November 2022}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Jim Osborne

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| number = 68

| position = Defensive tackle

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|9|7|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Sylvania, Georgia, U.S.

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| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 250

| high_school = Dillard {{nowrap|(Fort Lauderdale, Florida)}}

| college = Southern

| draftyear = 1972

| draftround = 7

| draftpick = 182

| pastteams =

• Chicago Bears ({{NFL Year|1972|1984}})

| highlights =

• 100 greatest Bears of All-Time
• Third-team Little All-American (1971)

| statlabel1 = Sacks

| statvalue1 = 81.0

| statlabel2 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue2 = 9

| pfr = O/OsboJi20

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James Henry Osborne (born September 7, 1949) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League (NFL). He attended Southern University,{{cite web|url=http://www.sus.edu/NewsLetter/NewsletterDisplay.asp?p1=9876&p2=Y&Sort= |title=Former SU defensive tackle, .FL pro inducted into SWAC HOF |work=Southern Bulletin |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709044317/http://www.sus.edu/NewsLetter/NewsletterDisplay.asp?p1=9876 |archivedate=9 July 2019 |url-status=dead }} and spent his entire 13-year pro career with Bears.{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/player/jimosborne/2522564/profile |title=Jim Osborne, DT at NFL.com |work=National Football League |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409183804/http://www.nfl.com/player/jimosborne/2522564/profile |archivedate=9 April 2016 |url-status=dead }} Osborne retired in 1984, one year shy of the Bears Super Bowl win. At the time of his retirement he lived in Olympia Fields.[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/08/02/what-ever-happened-to-7/ What Ever Happened To...? - tribunedigital-chicagotribune] Retrieved 2017.02.19. He won the Brian Piccolo Award from the Bears organization in 1972.{{cite web|url=http://www.brianpiccolofund.org/partners/chicago-bears/piccolo-awards/ |title=The Piccolo Awards |work=Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225403/http://www.brianpiccolofund.org/partners/chicago-bears/piccolo-awards/ |archivedate=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}