Brian David Griese (born March 18, 1975 in Miami,
Florida) is an American football quarterback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football
League. He was originally drafted by the Denver
Broncos in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He
played college football at Michigan.
A Pro Bowl selection with the Broncos in 2000,
Griese earned a Super Bowl ring with the team in
Super Bowl XXXIII. He has also played for the Miami
Dolphins and Chicago Bears in his career. He is the
son of Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Griese, who also
played for the Dolphins.
Griese attended Christopher Columbus High School in
Miami, Florida and played football, basketball, and
golf. In football, he won All-State third team
honors as a senior.
Brian Griese is founder and board president of
Judi's House, a children's grief support center in
Denver, Colorado. Brian's mother, Judi Griese,
succumbed to breast cancer when Brian was 12. The
grieving process was hard for Brian, and so he
established Judi's House to serve grieving children
in the Denver area. To date, Judi's House has helped
more than 1,700 youth and their adult caregivers
cope with overwhelming feelings of grief. He
continues to maintain close ties with the facility,
despite the frequent moves dictated by his
professional football career. Some noteworthy major
donors to Judi's House include Jackson National Life
Insurance, Office Depot, Nouveau Riche University,
Nike, Inc., and the Adolph Coors Family Foundation.
Brian and his father, Bob Griese wrote a book
together, Undefeated (ISBN 0-7852-7021-3), published
in 2000 about their lives through their undefeated
seasons and living through the breast cancer illness
and death of Brian's mother and Bob's first wife,
Judi.
Griese married Brook McClintic, a clinical
psychologist, in the Spring of 2004 on the island of
St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The couple met
while Griese was playing for the Denver Broncos. On
April 6th, 2006 Brian and Brook had their first
child, a baby girl they named Annalia Rose.
