1. George William Ratterman was an American professional football quarterback who played in the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League.
19 Facts About George Ratterman
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George Ratterman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated from St Xavier High School in 1944.
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George Ratterman played college football at the University of Notre Dame from 1944 through 1946, primarily as a backup to quarterbacks Frank Dancewicz and Johnny Lujack.
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George Ratterman was the last of only four students in Notre Dame history to earn letters in four different sports.
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George Ratterman played professional football with the Buffalo Bills of the AAFC from 1947 to 1949, when the league merged with the NFL.
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George Ratterman continued his career with the New York Yanks of the NFL in 1950 and 1951, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 1951 and finished with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL from 1952 through 1956.
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George Ratterman led the NFL in TD passes in 1950 while playing for New York.
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George Ratterman was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, October 8,1956.
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George Ratterman earned his law degree in 1956 and was admitted to practice in Ohio and Kentucky.
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George Ratterman acted as general counsel for the American Football League Players Association in the mid-1960s, when Jack Kemp was the president of the union.
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George Ratterman was elected sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1961 after an irregular campaign season during which George Ratterman was drugged with chloral hydrate and put in bed with a stripper as part of a failed blackmail attempt.
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George Ratterman was an unsuccessful candidate for county judge and United States Congress in the 1960s.
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George Ratterman finished third in the Republican primary for Kentucky's 4th congressional district behind Gene Snyder.
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George Ratterman is the author of a book, Confessions of a Gypsy Quarterback, Coward-McCann, 1962, containing hilarious anecdotes of his experiences and hijinks in professional football.
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George Ratterman told the guard to "go back and get another one" as he did not like the play.
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George Ratterman worked as a color commentator on TV and radio broadcasts of AFL and NFL football games for ABC-TV and NBC-TV.
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George Ratterman was frequently paired with Jack Buck and Charlie Jones on broadcast teams.
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George Ratterman had the distinction of providing color analysis to Jim Simpson's play-by-play of Super Bowl I on Sunday, January 15,1967, for the NBC Radio Network.
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George Ratterman died in Centennial, Colorado, on November 3,2007, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.