Burgess Owens

Burgess Owens fascinates me purely for the range of his life. A University of Miami man who played safety in the NFL and won Super Bowl XV with the Raiders, he then became a business executive and later a U.S. congressman for Utah. That is a refusal to be defined by any single title. Born in 1951 in Columbus, Ohio, he seems to carry a gridiron competitor's instinct into politics. Whatever one makes of his positions, the nerve to keep changing arenas instead of resting on past wins is real, and I genuinely respect that restlessness.

Name (English)

Burgess Owens

Name (Japanese)

バージェス・オーウェンズ

Reading

ばーじぇす・おーうぇんず

Born

August 2, 1951 (age 75)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Occupation

politician / American football player / business executive / salesperson

High school

James S. Rickards High School

University

University of Miami

• Official sitehttps://www.burgess4utah.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/burgessowens/
• Xhttps://x.com/BurgessOwens
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess%20Owens
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4998602

Tags

• Ohio
• politician
• American football player
• business executive

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.