Al Chesley

Chesley is listed as the starting linebacker on the National Champion 1976 Pitt Panther squad.He also had 133 tackles in 1981, but Philadelphia changed up their defensive scheme in 1982 with Chesley losing his starting spot.After years of silence, Chesley came forward as a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of a neighborhood police officer.He was among a group of 200 men who appeared on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show holding pictures of themselves at the age when they began to suffer the abuse.This biographical article relating to an American football linebacker born in the 1950s is a stub.
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