He played Gaelic football with his local club Macroom and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1975 until 1983.
[8] Creedon died on 28 August 1983 (the morning of the 1983 All Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Cork), having been seriously injured in an accident involving a runaway van.
The noted contemporary Irish poet and academic Bernard O'Donoghue dedicated his poem 'Munster Final' to Creedon and references the player in the second verse.
Fittingly, Macroom are the joint top winners of the Cup having won the competition three times (along with Castletownbere and Mallow).
The Club developed these into two playing pitches, a warm-up area and riverside walk and called the grounds 'Tom Creedon Park'.