

Sadly, John Matuszak died of AIDS at the age of 38. In his case, acting "took," and Matuszak became a successful film and TV performer after his 1982 retirement from professional sports, playing character roles in fantasy films like Ice Pirates (1984) and Goonies (1986) and making regular appearances on the TV series Hollywood Beat and First and Ten. Like many of his calling, Matuszak decided to try the movies, beginning with a good part in the football-oriented North Dallas Forty (1979). Actually, that's an understatement: as Houston's number one pick in the 1973 NFL draft, as a wildly unpredictable defensive lineman for the Raiders, and as a veteran of two Super Bowls, Matuszak was a FOOTBALL PLAYER. During his first professional "life," Wisconsin-born John Matuszak was a football player. “John Matuszak is dead from early steroid use.

Hard-driving athlete who lived life in the fast lane. Since its inception in the mid 1950s, Playboy magazine has courted fascination as well as controversy. Competed in the 1978 World's Strongest Man Competition weighing 308 lbs. 25 Celebrity Women Who’ve Been in Playboy: From Marilyn Monroe to Kate Moss & More. Autobiography: "Cruisin' With The Tooz."Former defensive end for the Los Angeles Raiders. Profile: Birth name John Daniel Matuszak Nickname Tooz Height 6' 8" (2.03 m) Trivia Ex-football player turned actor. Although Helen Gurley Brown 's Cosmopolitan had featured the first nude male centerfold, Playgirl, first published by Douglas Lambert and edited by Marin Scott Milam, was more of a female counterpart to Playboy. PG December 1982 – Athlete (Photography by Jacky Winter) With its appearance on the stands in May 1973, Playgirl magazine became the first magazine for women to focus on men.
