1. William Max McGee was an American professional football player who was an end and punter for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 1954 to 1967.
17 Facts About Max McGee
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Max McGee is best known for his seven receptions for 138 yards and two touchdowns, scoring the now historical initial touchdown, in the first Super Bowl.
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Max McGee rushed for 3,048 his senior year as a White Oak Roughneck player in 1949.
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Max McGee played college football at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was a fullback and a top punter.
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Max McGee was selected in the fifth round of the 1954 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers.
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Max McGee was the punter during the first few years of his career.
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Max McGee missed the next two seasons while serving as a pilot in the US Air Force, then returned to become the Packers' leading receiver from 1958 to 1962.
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Max McGee helped the team to six NFL championship appearances, five NFL championship wins, and two Super Bowl titles during the remaining years of his career.
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Max McGee was a Pro Bowl selection during the 1961 season.
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Max McGee did not expect to play in the game, and he violated his team's curfew policy and spent the night before the Super Bowl out on the town.
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Dowler went down with a separated shoulder on the Packers' second drive of the game, and Max McGee, who had to borrow a teammate's helmet because he had not brought his own out of the locker room, was put into the game.
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Max McGee retired shortly after the game and finished his 12-season career with 345 receptions for 6,346 yards and 12 carries for 121 yards.
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Max McGee entered into a restaurant partnership with Packers left guard Fuzzy Thurston; they operated the Left Guard Charcoal Houses in Appleton, Fond du Lac, Madison, Green Bay, and Eau Claire.
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Max McGee was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Max McGee was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 56 in April 1989, but it was caught early and he recovered after surgery.
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In 2007, at the age of 75, Max McGee died after a fall off the roof of his home in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota, a suburb west of Minneapolis.
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Max McGee's wife said he had been suffering from an early form of Alzheimer's disease for the previous five years.