Randy Crowder

{{Short description|American football player (born 1952)}}

{{Use American English|date=November 2024}}

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

{{Infobox NFL biography

|name=Randy Crowder

|number=74, 71

|position=Defensive tackle
Defensive end

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1952|7|30|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|height_ft=6

|weight_lb=242

|height_in=2

|high_school=Farrell Area (PA){{Cite web|title=Farrell's Crowder logs big score for linemen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/141389130/?match=1&terms=%22randy%20crowder%22|access-date=2024-01-08|website=The Pittsburgh Press|language=en-US}}

|college=Penn State

|draftyear=1974

|draftround=6

|draftpick=136

|pastteams=* Miami Dolphins ({{NFL Year|1974|1976}})

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers ({{NFL Year|1978|1980}})

|highlights=

• First-team All-American (1973)
• First-team All-East (1973)

|statlabel1=Sacks

|statvalue1=19.0

|statlabel2=Fumble recoveries

|statvalue2=3

|pfr=CrowRa20

}}

Randolph Channing Crowder Sr. (born July 30, 1952) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the NFL. He played three seasons with the Miami Dolphins and three with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.{{cite news |last1=Frias |first1=Carlos |title='With notoriety coms the target on your chest' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31998953/randy_crowder/ |accessdate=28 May 2019 |work=The Palm Beach Post |date=October 31, 2004 |location=Florida, West Palm Beach |page=1 B|via = Newspapers.com}} He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning first-team All-American honors in 1973. Retiring from the NFL after the 1982 season, he was the Defensive Line Coach at Penn State University for 2 years.

On August 10, 1977, a judge sentenced two former Miami Dolphin players to one year in jail for selling cocaine from their arrest on May 4, 1977. Randy Crowder and Don Reese, who admitted selling {{convert|1|lb|kg|spell=in}} of cocaine to an undercover policeman, pleaded no contest and Circuit Judge Joseph Durant withheld adjudication as part of a plea-bargaining agreement. After his release from the Dade County Stockade in 1978, Crowder went on to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while Reese played for the New Orleans Saints.