Francisco 49ers for most of 1973 and all of 1974. After football Shinners followed in the footsteps of his father, a former minor league baseball player who founded the Hartford Times-Press in 1933. In 1954, his father became the co-owner of the Menomonee Falls News in Wisconsin, and in 1969 he bought several weekly newspapers in the Milwaukee area. His father died in 1982 at age 74. John Shinners eventually became president of Shinners Publications before selling the company in 1997. He lived in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. He worked as a business consultant and did work with a local radio station. In 1996, he was inducted into the Xavier University Athletic Hall of Fame, and he was a member of the university's Legion of Honor. Shinners' youngest daughter, Rebecca, graduated from Xavier in 1997. Shinners died in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 2, 2022, at the age of 75. References 1947 births 2022 deaths American football offensive linemen Xavier Musketeers football players New Orleans Saints players Baltimore Colts players Cincinnati Bengals players People from Hartford, Wisconsin Businesspeople from Wisconsin Players of American football from Wisconsin