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Matt Kinsinger

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6788907
Source-derived summary

Matthew Mark Kinsinger (born March 16, 1977) is an American former professional football fullback/linebacker who played in the Arena Football League for the Houston ThunderBears, San Jose SaberCats, Las Vegas Gladiators, and Chicago Rush.

Early life

While attending Meyersdale High School in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, Kinsinger was a first team All-County and an All-Conference selection in football, basketball, and baseball.

College career

Kinsinger attended Slippery Rock University, where he played as a defensive lineman. He was a Football Gazette All-America selection.

Editorial summary

“Matt Kinsinger” enters the record as american football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Matt, Kinsinger and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-03-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Matt, Kinsinger and American.
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“Matt Kinsinger” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Matt, Kinsinger and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6788907. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Matt Kinsinger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.