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May 26, 1948 Spokane, Washington, United States 75 years old
American football player
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About Mike Oriard
- Mike Oriard is a former professional American football player who played offensive lineman for four seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs.Oriard has gone on to have a distinguished career as a professor of English and later Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.
- His academic work has centered on American sports nonfiction in multiple mediums.
- His bibliography includes Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport (published in 2010), Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era (published in 2009), Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature (published in 2008), King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press (published in 2003), Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States) (published in 1999), and Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980 (published in 1982).
