1. Madison Monroe "Buzz" Nutter was an American professional football center in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.
10 Facts About Buzz Nutter
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Buzz Nutter attended and played high school football at Vinson High School.
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Buzz Nutter was selected in the 12th round of the 1953 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins.
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Buzz Nutter failed to make the team in the offseason and moved back to West Virginia to work in a steel mill.
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Buzz Nutter returned to the NFL in 1954 with the Baltimore Colts, where he played for seven seasons and won consecutive NFL Championship titles.
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Buzz Nutter was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers, along with Eugene Lipscomb, in 1961 for wide receiver Jimmy Orr.
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Buzz Nutter played in Pittsburgh for four seasons and was selected for the Pro Bowl in 1962.
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Buzz Nutter was named Center Distributors after his football position.
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Two days before her death, in a service that took place in his wife's hospital room, Buzz Nutter converted to Catholicism after being a lifelong Methodist.
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Buzz Nutter died on April 12,2008, of heart failure at Civista Medical Center in La Plata.