Ordell Braase
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Position: | Defensive end | ||||||
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Born: | Mitchell, South Dakota, U.S. | March 13, 1932||||||
Died: | March 25, 2019 Bradenton, Florida, U.S. | (aged 87)||||||
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High school: | Mitchell (SD) | ||||||
College: | South Dakota | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1954 / Round: 14 / Pick: 160 | ||||||
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Ordell Wayne Braase (
Career
After playing at South Dakota, the Colts drafted Braase in the 14th round of the 1954 NFL draft. However, he did not join the team until 1957, delayed by three years of service in the
During his football career in Baltimore, Braase performed in commercials for Dixie Cola, even singing their jingle.
Following his retirement as an active player, Braase was a restaurant owner in Timonium, Maryland, and in the 1970s was an executive with a Baltimore truck body manufacturer. He also teamed with play-by-play announcer Chuck Thompson to provide color commentary for radio broadcasts of Colts games. In the 1990s, he co-hosted a popular program, Braase, Donovan, Davis and Fans on WJZ-TV in Baltimore with fellow Colt teammate Art Donovan. The trio talked more about Art Donovan's fabled stories than contemporary NFL football, but the show held high ratings in its time period.
Braase later lived in Bradenton, Florida, where he died in 2019 at the age of 87.[4]
References
- ^ "Ordell Braase". South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 6 August 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Baltimore Colts 1965 Press-Radio-Television Guide (pronunciations on page 53). Retrieved May 25, 2020
- ^ "Bobby Boyd, All-Pro Colts cornerback in the 1960s, dies at 79".
- ^ Baltimore Sun obituary, March 31, 2019