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Position: | Guard | ||||
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Born: | Montebello, California, U.S. | May 12, 1956||||
Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||
Weight: | 295 lb (134 kg) | ||||
Career information | |||||
High school: | La Puente (La Puente, California) | ||||
College: | UCLA | ||||
NFL draft: | 1979 / Round: 7 / Pick: 168 | ||||
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Max Montoya Jr. (born May 12, 1956) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 16 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins.
Montoya who is of Mexican–American descent, attended La Puente High School [1] in La Puente, California. He was unable to play football or basketball his senior season due to a heart murmur. [2]
Montoya was cleared to play football again [2] and began his college football career playing for Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC), a community college in Walnut, California. He did not start as a freshman, but after an outstanding sophomore season, he earned a football scholarship to UCLA, [2] where he would play for head coach Terry Donahue. [3] After redshirting for a year, [2] Montoya was a starter in 1977 as the Bruins posted a 7-4 record. In 1978, he was again a starter, earning All Pac-10 honors. [2] The Bruins in 1978 went 8-3-1, ended the season in both the AP and UPI Top 20 rankings and played to a 10-10 tie against Arkansas in the 1978 Fiesta Bowl. [4]
Montoya was drafted in the 7th round (168th overall) of the 1979 NFL Draft. Montoya was a four-time Pro Bowl guard who played in two Super Bowls with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played 11 seasons for the Bengals, from 1979 to 1989, becoming a starter in his second season. He then played five seasons for the Los Angeles Raiders, starting in all but his final season. [5]
After retiring from the NFL, Montoya invested in a restaurant franchise of Cincinnati-based Penn Station East Coast Subs and eventually owned four in northern Kentucky. [6] He is also a founder and silent partner of Montoya's Restaurant in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. [7] He also spent five years helping coach the Beechwood High School football team (including son Matthew, now a multimedia freelancer) in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. His daughter, Alison Montoya (a twin of Matthew), is a general assignment reporter and anchor for Cincinnati FOX affiliate WXIX [8] after previously working for WLWT. [9] [10]
Montoya is now semi-retired and lives with his wife, Patty, on a farm in Hebron, Kentucky, where he raises horses. [10]
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