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===Business=== After leaving the NFL, Huff took a position with [[J. P. Stevens Textile Corporation|J. P. Stevens]] in New York City as a textiles sales representative. He later joined the [[Marriott Corp.|Marriott]] Corporation as a salesman in 1971, rising to vice president of sports marketing before retiring in 1998.<ref name=violentworld /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hose |first1=Dan |title=Sam Huff, who played for West Virginia University's 1953... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/29/Sam-Huff-who-played-for-West-Virginia-Universitys-1953/2173381128400/ |access-date=November 19, 2021 |work=UPI |date=January 29, 1982 |language=en |quote=Huff is a vice president of marketing for Marriott Hotels for whom he has worked 11 years.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stump |first1=Jake |title=No One More Enthusiastic about Marriott International Coming to the Rescue of The Greenbrier than West Virginia Football Legend Sam Huff, a Longtime Employee of Marriott |url=https://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2009_1st/Mar09_GreenbrierHuff.html |access-date=November 19, 2021 |work=[[Charleston Daily Mail]] |date=March 2009 |quote=Huff was an All-American tackle for WVU in 1955 and then played for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. He now lives in Virginia and is a radio color commentator for the Redskins. He joined Marriott as a salesman in 1971 after his football career ended and eventually became the chain's vice president of sports marketing. Huff owns 5 percent of the Town Center Marriott.}}</ref> While with Marriott, Huff was responsible for selling over 600,000 room nights via a partnership between the NFL and Marriott that booked teams into Marriott branded hotels for away games. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was a spokesman for Marlboro cigarettes.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blum |first1=Alan |title=Museum malignancy: What the Sacklers and Philip Morris have in common |url=https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20191018_2/ |website=The Cancer Letter |access-date=November 19, 2021 |date=October 18, 2019 |quote=...decades of aggressive marketing by Philip Morris aimed at associating its cigarette brands with athletic prowess, notably through Marlboro ads featuring National Football League stars Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and others. ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Life |date=December 5, 1960 |page=151 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=900EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Sam+%22Huff%22+%22Marlboro%22+cigarettes&pg=PA151 |access-date=November 19, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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