Keith Lovell Cash is a former professional American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 tight end

Tight end

The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...

 in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 (NFL). He played six seasons in the NFL, one for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Steelers

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 and five for the Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...

. As a collegian, Keith played wide receiver at the University of Texas

Texas Longhorns football

The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate football team representing The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The team currently competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National...

. Keith is best remembered at UT for catching the game-winning touchdown

Touchdown

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 pass on 4th down from Texas quarterback

Quarterback

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 Peter Gardere

Peter Gardere

Peter Alexander Gardere is a former American football quarterback, famous for his four-year tenure as Texas Longhorns quarterback in the late 1980s/early 1990s....

 in a rivalry

Red River Rivalry

The Red River Rivalry, commonly known as the OU-Texas Game or Texas-OU Game, is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Oklahoma Sooners football team of the University of Oklahoma and the Texas Longhorns football team of the University of Texas. The series is considered...

 game against Oklahoma

Oklahoma Sooners football

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 which enabled UT to win the game 14-13 in 1990. Keith's most memorable NFL receptions include catching a touchdown pass from Joe Montana

Joe Montana

Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr. , nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired American football player. Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played quarterback for the next 14 seasons...

 in Montana's first game against his former team, the San Francisco 49ers

San Francisco 49ers

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, and catching a touchdown pass from Montana in the Chiefs' 28-20 playoff victory over the Houston Oilers in 1993.

Personal

Keith's twin brother, Kerry Cash

Kerry Cash

Kerry Cash is a former American football tight end in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fifth round of the 1991 NFL Draft...

, played tight end with him at Texas. Both twin brothers played tight end in the NFL for six seasons.

As high school athletes, Keith and Kerry Cash led San Antonio Holmes High School to the 5A state semi-finals in football against Houston Yates in 1985 and to the 5A Texas state finals in basketball in 1987. Keith excelled in track and field as well, winning the district championship in the 200 meters and the high jump.