Paul Maguire
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Born: | Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. | August 22, 1938||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 228 lb (103 kg) | ||||||||||
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College: | The Citadel | ||||||||||
AFL draft: | 1960 / Round: 1 Pick: First Selections (by the Los Angeles Chargers) | ||||||||||
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Paul Leo Maguire (born August 22, 1938) is an American former professional
Early sports career
Maguire attended
Professional football career
In 1960, Maguire was selected by the Los Angeles Chargers of the American Football League, where he served as both a punter and linebacker. He moved with the team to San Diego in 1961, and stayed there until 1964 when he joined the Buffalo Bills. Maguire was an ace at the "coffin corner" punt. He contributed to three Bills' Eastern Division titles, and their AFL championships in 1964 and 1965.In the 1964 AFL Championship game he kicked a 78 yard punt that went out of bounds at the San Diego 2 yard line with 2 minutes left in the game that sealed the victory for the Bills. In the 1965 championship game he was involved in one of the most spectacular plays in Bills' history in the 1965 American Football League Championship game against the Chargers. Butch Byrd took a John Hadl punt and with outstanding blocking, took it 74 yards for a touchdown. The last two blocks were by Maguire, crushing two Chargers.
Maguire played in six of the ten American Football League Championship Games — three with the Chargers and three with the Bills, winning three AFL Championship rings, and he was the league's all-time punter in punts and yardage. He was one of only twenty players who were in the AFL for its entire ten-year existence. After his retirement he was inducted into the Youngstown, Ohio Sports Hall of Fame, and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
Media career
Beginning in the 1970s, Maguire worked as a color commentator on network NFL telecasts, first with NBC and then ESPN. He also called ESPN's telecasts of college football, the Canadian Football League and the now-defunct USFL. Maguire re-joined NBC in 1986 as an analyst on their pregame show, then becoming a color commentator in 1988. Maguire most often worked with Marv Albert on the network's #2 broadcast team for his first seven seasons working for the network. In 1995, Maguire and then-ESPN reporter Phil Simms joined Dick Enberg as the #1 broadcast team for NBC, and remained paired until the end of the 1997 season, when NBC lost the rights to the NFL.
Maguire rejoined ESPN for the
In 1991, Maguire participated in the WrestleMania VII event.
Maguire, who had a residence in Buffalo after his playing days, hosted a locally produced call-in show called the "
Maguire worked his last regular season NFL game on January 1, 2006, as the
In March 2007, Maguire began to serve as an in-studio analyst for ESPN's NFL Live.
Maguire did not return to broadcasting for the
See also
References
- ^ "CAA Admin Tool".
- ^ "Nearing 80, Paul Maguire talks Bills, broadcasting and the time he hung up on Lou Saban". July 7, 2018.
- ^ "Paul Maguire – Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame".
- ^ "HDNet Announces Broadcast Team for UFL Game Coverage". Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2010.