Alan Risher

American football player (born 1961)

PersonAge 65humanQ4707635

Born: May 6, 1961
Birthplace: New Orleans
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: American football player
Education: Louisiana State University

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Alan David Risher is a former quarterback for the LSU Tigers and the United States Football League (USFL), where he played for the Arizona Wranglers. The USFL was a 12 team league in 1983, so although Risher was drafted 170th overall in the league's 1983 draft, he was actually the team's 15th round pick that year. Risher was the starting quarterback for the Wranglers for most of the league's initial 1983 season. He is known best for directing what is widely acknowledged as the greatest upset in USFL history. He backed up Greg Landry on the 1984 Western Conference Champion Wranglers squad.

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Member of sports team: Green Bay Packers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Given name: Alan
Position played on team / speciality: quarterback
Family name: Risher
Sport: American football
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Sex or gender: male

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6 identifiers linking Alan Risher across the web's reference databases

DatabaseFootball.com player IDRISHEALA01
Freebase ID/m/055vg66
HAND ID46B7-77EF-B730-5D02-594E
NFL.com player IDalan-risher
Pro Football Reference player IDR/RishAl20
Trading Card Database name ID99463

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