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{{Short description|American football player and pharmaceutical researcher (born 1940)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
| name          = Ed Blaine
| image         =
| number        = 60, 64
| position      = [[Guard (American football)|Guard]]
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1940|1|30|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Farmington, Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| height_ft     = 6
| height_in     = 1
| weight_lbs    = 240
| high_school   = Farmington
| college       = [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri]]
| draftyear     = 1962
| draftround    = 2
| draftpick     = 28
| afldraftyear  = 1962
| afldraftround = 4
| afldraftpick  = 29
| pastteams     =
* [[Green Bay Packers]] ([[1962 NFL season|1962]])
* [[Philadelphia Eagles]] ([[1963 NFL season|1963]]–[[1966 NFL season|1966]])
| highlights    =
* [[List of NFL champions (1920–1969)|NFL champion]] ([[1962 NFL Championship Game|1962]])
* First-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1961 College Football All-America Team|1961]])
* First-team All-[[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] ([[1961 All-Big Eight Conference football team|1961]])
* Second-team All-Big Eight ([[1960 All-Big Eight Conference football team|1960]])
| statlabel1    = [[Games played]]
| statvalue1    = 70
| statlabel2    = [[Games started]]
| statvalue2    = 41
| pfr           = BlaiEd20 
}}
'''Edward Homer Blaine''' (born January 30, 1940) is an American former professional [[American football|football]] player who was a [[Guard (American football)|guard]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL). He played [[college football]] for the [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri Tigers]], earning first-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] honors in 1961. After his football career, he became an honorary professor and investigator at the [[University of Missouri]].

==Early life==
Blaine was born in [[Farmington, Missouri]] on January 30, 1940.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100205050130/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BLAINED01 Ed Blaine Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards - databaseFootball.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref> He attended the [[University of Missouri]], where he played [[offensive guard]] on the for the [[Missouri Tigers|Tigers football team]] while a [[Pre-medical|pre-med]] student there. Blaine was named All-[[Big Eight Conference]] and [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] in 1961.

==Professional football career==
Blaine was selected by the [[Green Bay Packers]] in the second round (28th overall) of the [[1962 NFL draft]], and was also selected by the [[New York Titans (football)|New York Titans]] in the fourth round (29th overall) of the [[American Football League]] (AFL)'s [[1962 American Football League draft|1962 draft]].

He played professionally in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers in 1962 and [[Philadelphia Eagles]] from 1963 to 1966.  He was named All-Pro after the [[1964 NFL season]]. Blaine was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame on September 29, 2011.

==Later years==
Blaine is the former Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center Director and continues as a Dalton Development officer and Investigator and Professor in the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology with the [[University of Missouri]]. Dr. Ed Blaine was not only successful on the football field but also as one of the nation's foremost pharmaceutical researchers with an interest in hypertension and heart failure.

In November 2009, Dr. Blaine was recognized as a [[Distinguished Eagle Scout Award|Distinguished Eagle Scout]] by the Boy Scouts of America. This recognition is held with other greats such as astronaut [[Neil Armstrong]], former President [[Gerald Ford]], and Secretary of Defense [[Robert Gates]].

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