Larry Lavern Ball (born September 27, 1949) is a former American football linebacker.
Ball is the only player in NFL history to play an entire season for both an undefeated team, the 1972 Miami Dolphins (where he won Super Bowl VII), and a winless team, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
A third player who also played for the '72 Dolphins, Doug Swift, was taken by the Buccaneers in the expansion draft, but retired from football to enter medical school and never reported to the team.
)[1] After football, Ball worked as a guidance counselor, department head, and coach for Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Miami, Florida.
He is active in the South Florida community, participating in numerous charity events along with his fellow '72 Undefeated Team teammates.