Steve Shafer
Canadian football player
Stephen Edward Shafer (born December 8, 1940) is an American former professional football player and coach who played for the BC Lions, winning the Grey Cup with them in 1964. He played college football at Utah State University and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1963 NFL draft. He was later a football coach in the National Football League (NFL), over the span of 1983 to 2003 serving on the staffs of the Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders, Carolina Panthers, Baltimore Ravens, and Jacksonville Jaguars. He lives in Lincoln, California.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Steve Shafer” as canadian football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as canadian football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18158409. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1940, 1964, 1963 and 1983.
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