Mike Haffner
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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||
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Born: | Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. | July 7, 1942||||||
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College: | UCLA | ||||||
Undrafted: | 1965 | ||||||
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Michael Arthur Haffner[1] (born July 7, 1942) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for four seasons for the Denver Broncos (1968–1970)[2] and Cincinnati Bengals (1971).[3] As of 2017[update]'s NFL off-season, he still held the Broncos rookie franchise record for yards per reception at 30.5, for a 4 reception, 122 yard performance on 14 Dec 1968 against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Career
[edit]After retirement, Haffner was a color commentator for the NFL on NBC. He is most noted for being the sideline reporter who inadvertently captured on his live microphone a two‐word expletive uttered by Terry Donahue who was voicing his disapproval over a Bruins interception being nullified due to a penalty in NBC's Christmas Day telecast of the 1978 Fiesta Bowl. Haffner and Donohue had been roommates at UCLA.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mike Haffner". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 5, 2009.
- ^ "Broncos All-Time Roster" (PDF). denverbroncos.com. Retrieved March 5, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "Bengals All-Time Roster". bengals.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2009.
- ^ "Two Words From the Coach With Expletives Undeleted," The Associated Press (AP), Monday, December 25, 1978. Retrieved December 7, 2020
- 1942 births
- Living people
- American football wide receivers
- Cincinnati Bengals players
- Denver Broncos (AFL) players
- Denver Broncos players
- National Football League announcers
- Sportspeople from Waterloo, Iowa
- UCLA Bruins football players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football wide receiver, 1940s birth stubs