Redskins Legends

Sam Huff

Career Highlights

A native of West Virginia, Sam Huff spent his college days at the University of West Virginia, where he was an All-American. As a professional in his rookie season in 1956, Huff helped lead the New York Giants to a National Football League championship. Consistently an all-pro, Huff played for the Giants through the 1963 season and then with the Washington Redskins, as a player/coach and assistant to Vince Lombardi, from 1964-1967 and again in 1969.

In 1995 Sam founded the Middleburg Broadcasting Network (MBN), which combines regional radio, television and live remote broadcasting. MBN produces the programs, “Trackside” Radio’s Voice of Thoroughbred Racing with Carol Holden and Sam Huff and GREENWAVE the first environmental entrepreneurial radio and Internet radio talk show of its kind. MBN’s live steeplechase radio remotes have been awarded Grand Prize as best remote in the United States.

Sam’s lifelong interest in horses and a dedicated effort to improve and promote racing in his native West Virginia led to the founding of the West Virginia Breeders Classics, which this year celebrates its 14th anniversary as the richest series of horse races ever staged in the Mountaineer State.

Sam was born in 1934 in Edna Gas, a coal-mining camp near Morgantown, West Virginia. He currently resides at the farm he built in Middleburg, Virginia.

Accomplishments

Member of College and Pro Football Hall of Fame
President, Middleburg Broadcasting Network
President, West Virginia Breeders Classics
Color Analysis for Washington Redskins Radio Broadcast
Consultant-Special Markets for Marriott Hotels

Honors

‘56 Defensive Rookie of the Year
‘59 NFL Most Valuable Defensive Player
‘61 Pro Bowl MVP
‘76 West Virginia State Hall of Fame
‘80 Washington Hall of Stars
‘80 National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame
‘82 Pro Football Hall of Fame
‘99 “The Sporting News” Greatest Players of the Century
Six Pro Bowl Appearances