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{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1968)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
| name         = Tim Grunhard
| image        =
| position     = [[Center (American football)|Center]]
| number       = 61
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1968|5|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date   = 
| height_ft    = 6
| height_in    = 2
| weight_lbs   = 315
| draftyear    = 1990
| draftround   = 2
| draftpick    = 40
| high_school  = [[St. Laurence High School|St. Laurence]]<br>([[Burbank, Illinois]])
| college      = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]]
| pastteams    =
* [[Kansas City Chiefs]] ({{NFL Year|1990|2000}})
| pastcoaching =
* [[Bishop Miege High School]] (2006–2011)<br>Head coach
* [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] (2012–2013)<br>Offensive line
* Bishop Miege High School (2014–present)<br>Offensive line
| highlights   =
* [[Pro Bowl]] ([[2000 Pro Bowl|1999]])
* [[PFWA All-Rookie Team]] ([[PFWA All-Rookie Team#1990|1990]])
* [[Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame]] 
| statlabel1   = Games played
| statvalue1   = 169
| statlabel2   = Games [[Starting lineup|started]]
| statvalue2   = 164
| statlabel3   = [[Fumble]] recoveries
| statvalue3   = 8
| pfr          = 
}}

'''Timothy Gerard Grunhard''' (born May 17, 1968) is an [[American football]] coach and former [[Center (American football)|center]]. A second-round draft choice in the [[1990 NFL draft]] for the [[Kansas City Chiefs]], Grunhard went on to play 169 games with Kansas City, the fourth most ever by a Chiefs [[offensive lineman]].

==College career==
Grunhard grew up in [[Chicago, Illinois]] and attended [[St. Laurence High School]] in [[Burbank, Illinois|Burbank]]. He later moved to [[South Bend, Indiana]] where he later played on some of [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]]'s most successful teams. He [[Starting lineup|started]] every game in [[1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1988]] when the Irish went undefeated and won the [[NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship|national championship]]. That season included victories over 3 otherwise undefeated teams: [[1988 West Virginia Mountaineers football team|West Virginia]] in the [[1989 Fiesta Bowl|Fiesta Bowl]], [[1988 USC Trojans football team|USC]] in a #1 vs. #2 showdown on the final weekend of the regular season, and the 31–30 win over [[1988 Miami Hurricanes football team|Miami]] at [[Notre Dame Stadium]] that is considered one of the greatest college football games ever played.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2002-11-19-memorable-moments_x.htm USA Today, "College football's best of the last 20 years"]</ref>

==Professional career==
Grunhard was a second round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1990 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1990/draft.htm |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> He was an anchor for the Chiefs' teams of the 1990s, alongside [[Dave Szott]]. During that time, he started 164 games for the Chiefs, which ranks third in franchise history. Grunhard made his first and only appearance in the [[Pro Bowl]] following the [[1999 NFL season]] after [[Denver Broncos]] center [[Tom Nalen]] was forced to miss the game due to injury.<ref>[http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2000/01/11/chiefs_c_tim_grunhard_added_to_pro_bowl_roster/ Chiefs center Grunhard added to Pro Bowl roster] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930200755/http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2000/01/11/chiefs_c_tim_grunhard_added_to_pro_bowl_roster/ |date=2007-09-30 }} ''KCChiefs.com'', 11 January 2000</ref>

==Coaching career==
===Bishop Miege (first stint)===
Grunhard became the head coach of the [[Bishop Miege High School]] football team, a [[Roman Catholic]] private [[high school]] in [[Roeland Park, Kansas]], in 2006. He taught theology.<ref>[http://www.theleaven.com/localgrunhard.htm Miege hires a real pro] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094101/http://www.theleaven.com/localgrunhard.htm |date=2007-09-28 }} ''The Leaven''</ref> In his first season as coach in 2006, the varsity team finished with a record of 3–6. The team won five straight district titles and the 2009 4A state title in Grunhard's six years of coaching.<ref>[http://varsity.kansascity.com/custom/article&news_id=3323 ''Kansas City Star'' 28 Nov. 2009, "Bishop Miege puts on offensive display in Class 4A title win"] They went on to win many more state titles as Tim under head offensive linemen coach 
{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202235401/http://varsity.kansascity.com/custom/article%26news_id%3D3323 |date=2009-12-02 }}</ref>

===Kansas===
In 2012, Grunhard was hired as the offensive line coach at Kansas.<ref>[http://www.kuathletics.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/121311aaa.html Kansas Football Adds Tim Grunhard To Staff]</ref> In December 2013, he left his position at the University of Kansas in order to be closer to his family in Kansas City.

===Bishop Miege (second stint)===
Grunhard returned to Bishop Miege high school as the offensive line coach in 2014.

==Broadcasting==
Grunhard had a radio show that was on from 9:00 to 11:00 on weekday mornings on [[KCSP (AM)|KCSP]] [[sports radio]] from October 2003 till he was let go in December 2007. He first did the show with Holden Kushner, and later Doug Franz, but was hosting by himself when released from his contract. His broadcasting career began in 2001 on WHB's "Crunch Time," with co-hosts Bill Maas and Frank Boal.

==Personal life==
Grunhard's son, Colin, plays center for [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Former Notre Dame backup center Colin Grunhard transferring to KU |url=http://www2.kusports.com/news/2021/jan/05/former-notre-dame-backup-center-colin-grunhard-tra/ |website=KUSports.com|date=5 January 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet |author=Tim Grunhard|user=grunny61|number = 1580323079984541699 |date=October 12, 2022|title=Wife}}</ref> His brother Daniel Charles "Dan" Grunhard played minor league baseball, as high as Triple A.Daughter Cailey qualified for the Olympic trials and held swim records at the University of Notre Dame in the butterfly.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930025932/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=GRUNHTIM01 Tim Grunhard]}} at DatabaseFootball.com

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