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{{Short description|American football player and sportscaster (born 1938)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
| name          = Paul Maguire
| image         = Paul Maguire 1961.jpg
| caption       = Maguire as a [[Los Angeles Chargers|San Diego Charger]] in 1961
| number        = 84, 55
| position      = [[Punter (football)|Punter]]<br>[[Linebacker]]
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1938|8|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Youngstown, Ohio]], U.S.
| height_ft     = 6
| height_in     = 0
| weight_lbs    = 228
| high_school   =
| college       = [[The Citadel Bulldogs football|The Citadel]]
| afldraftyear  = 1960
| afldraftround = 1<br>Pick: First Selections<br>(by the [[Los Angeles Chargers]])
| pastteams     =
* [[Los Angeles Chargers|Los Angeles / San Diego Chargers]] ([[1960 American Football League season|1960]]–[[1963 American Football League season|1963]])
* [[Buffalo Bills]] ([[1964 American Football League season|1964]]–{{NFL Year|1970}})
| pfr           = M/MaguPa20
| highlights    =
* 3× [[AFL champion]] ([[1963 American Football League Championship Game|1963]], [[1964 American Football League Championship Game|1964]], [[1965 American Football League Championship Game|1965]])
* 2× [[American Football League All-Star game|AFL All-Star]] (1963, 1965)
* 3× [[List of National Football League annual punting yards leaders#American Football League (AFL)|AFL punting yards leader]] (1962, 1968, 1969)
* Third-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1959 College Football All-America Team|1959]])
* 1960 Copper Bowl All-Star Game
| statlabel1    = Interceptions
| statvalue1    = 9
| statlabel2    = Punts
| statvalue2    = 795
| statlabel3    = Punt yards
| statvalue3    = 33,137
| statlabel4    = Average punt
| statvalue4    = 41.7
| statlabel5    = Longest punt
| statvalue5    = 82 
}}

'''Paul Leo Maguire''' (born August 22, 1938) is an American former professional [[American football|football]] player and television [[sportscaster]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secure.citadelalumni.org/dcal/detail.php?id=203|title=CAA Admin Tool|access-date=December 17, 2018|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217202352/https://secure.citadelalumni.org/dcal/detail.php?id=203|url-status=dead}}</ref> He played as a [[punter (gridiron football)|punter]] and [[linebacker]] in the [[American Football League]] (AFL) and [[National Football League]] (NFL).

==Early sports career==
Maguire attended [[Ursuline High School, Youngstown|Ursuline High School]] in [[Youngstown, Ohio]] where he was an All State wide receiver and punter; he also played basketball and ran track. He played [[tight end]] at [[The Citadel (military college)|The Citadel]] where he led the nation in touchdown receptions his senior season in 1959 and was named a 3rd Team Associated Press All American; he was recruited by Assistant Coach [[Al Davis]], the future [[Oakland Raiders]] owner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://buffalonews.com/2018/07/07/paul-maguires-full-life-in-football-and-broadcasting-provides-wealth-of-memories/|title = Nearing 80, Paul Maguire talks Bills, broadcasting and the time he hung up on Lou Saban| date=July 7, 2018 }}</ref>

==Professional football career==
In 1960, Maguire was selected by the [[Los Angeles Chargers]] of the [[American Football League]], where he served as both a punter and linebacker. He moved with the team to [[San Diego]] in 1961, and stayed there until 1964 when he joined the [[Buffalo Bills]]. Maguire was an ace at the [[Coffin corner (American football)|"coffin corner"]] punt. He contributed to three Bills' Eastern Division titles, and their AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. In the 1964 AFL Championship game he kicked a 78-yard punt that went out of bounds at the San Diego 2 yard line with 2 minutes left in the game that sealed the victory for the Bills. In the 1965 championship game he was involved in one of the most spectacular plays in Bills' history in the 1965 American Football League Championship game against the Chargers. [[Butch Byrd]] took a [[John Hadl]] punt and with outstanding blocking, took it 74 yards for a touchdown. The last two blocks were by Maguire, crushing two Chargers.

Maguire played in six of the ten [[Professional American football championship games|American Football League Championship Games]] &mdash; three with the Chargers and three with the Bills, winning three AFL Championship rings, and he was the league's all-time punter in punts and yardage. He was one of only twenty players who were in the AFL for its entire ten-year existence. After his retirement he was inducted into the Youngstown, Ohio Sports Hall of Fame, and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buffalosportshallfame.com/member/paul-maguire/|title = Paul Maguire – Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame| date=August 3, 2012 }}</ref>

==Media career==
Beginning in the 1970s, Maguire worked as a [[color commentator]] on network [[National Football League|NFL]] telecasts, first with [[NFL on NBC|NBC]] and then [[ESPN]]. He also called ESPN's telecasts of [[ESPN College Football|college football]], the [[Canadian Football League]] and the now-defunct [[United States Football League|USFL]]. Maguire re-joined NBC in [[1986 NFL season|1986]] as an analyst on their pregame show, then becoming a color commentator in 1988. Maguire most often worked with [[Marv Albert]] on NBC's #2 broadcast team for his first seven seasons working for NBC. In [[1995 NFL season|1995]], Maguire and then-ESPN reporter [[Phil Simms]] joined [[Dick Enberg]] as the #1 broadcast team for NBC, and remained paired until the end of the [[1997 NFL season|1997 season]], when NBC lost the rights to the NFL.

Maguire rejoined ESPN for the [[1998 NFL season|1998 season]] and became a second color commentator for ''[[ESPN Sunday Night Football|Sunday Night Football]]''. While there he also served as a color commentator for ABC's Wild Card Saturday games, as the ''Sunday Night Football'' team would (usually) broadcast the early game of the day. During the time he was at ESPN, Maguire called playoff games for ABC every year except for [[2002–03 NFL playoffs#AFC: New York Jets 41, Indianapolis Colts 0|2002]], when the network elected to use [[Brent Musburger]] and [[Gary Danielson]], its lead [[List of ESPN College Football on ABC personalities|college football broadcast team]], on Wild Card Saturday.

In 1991, Maguire participated in the [[WrestleMania VII]] event.

Maguire, who had a residence in Buffalo after his playing days, hosted a locally produced call-in show called the "[[Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)|Budweiser]] Sportsline". Later the program was broadcast on the [[Empire Sports Network]].

Maguire worked his last regular season NFL game on January 1, 2006, as the [[2005 St. Louis Rams season|St. Louis Rams]] and [[2005 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]] played on ESPN's final Sunday night broadcast. His final NFL game altogether came on January 7, 2006, as he worked the [[2005 Washington Redskins season|Washington Redskins]]-[[2005 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season|Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] [[2005–06 NFL playoffs#NFC: Washington Redskins 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10|opening round playoff game]]. However, Maguire was retained by ESPN to serve as a commentator for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s [[ESPN College Football on ABC|college football]] with [[Brad Nessler]], former [[Miami Dolphins]] quarterback [[Bob Griese]], and field reporter [[Bonnie Bernstein]].

In March 2007, Maguire began to serve as an in-studio analyst for [[ESPN]]'s ''[[NFL Live]]''.

Maguire did not return to broadcasting for the [[2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2009 college football]] season as his broadcast team was split up, with Nessler moving to Saturday night games on ESPN with [[Todd Blackledge]] and Griese moving to noon games on ESPN alongside [[Dave Pasch]] and [[Chris Spielman]]. He later ([[2009 UFL season|2009]]&ndash;[[2010 UFL season|2010]]) broadcast games for the then-new [[United Football League (2009&ndash;)|United Football League]] on [[HDNet]], a cable network and streaming service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hd.net/pressrelease.html?2009-09-30-01.html |title=HDNet Announces Broadcast Team for UFL Game Coverage |access-date=April 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612155003/http://hd.net/pressrelease.html?2009-09-30-01.html |archive-date=June 12, 2010 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of American Football League players]]

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