Jerry Sturm

Jerry Gordon Sturm (December 31, 1936 – June 17, 2020) was an American professional gridiron football player. After entering college on a basketball scholarship, he joined the college football team at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Saskatchewan Roughriders (1958), and Calgary Stampeders (1959–1960), the American Football League (AFL) for the Denver Broncos (1961–1966), and in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints (1967–1970), Houston Oilers (1971), and Philadelphia Eagles (1972). He was an American Football League All-Star in 1964 and 1966.

In 1971, he was offered a bribe of $10,000 to intentionally cause his team to lose a game, at a time when he only made $30,000 annually. Instead of taking the bribe, he informed the FBI and worked with them against the parties conspiring to fix the game.