RIP Ed Budde
A monster of a tackle who played for the uber powerful Detroit Denby High School in 1956, which some considered the best HS team in the country. However, all of their victories were wiped out due to a technical issue regarding running back Ed Hood’s issues with his medical permission report.
Budde went to Spartyville where he was a First Team All American, then drafted in the first round by both the NFL Philadelphia Eagles and the AFL Kansas City Chiefs. It was a big deal when he signed with the unproven AFL team. He started as a guard and played for 9 seasons without missing a game and retired after 14 years with the Chiefs. All-time, All-AFL First Team.
His son played for USC, was a first round draft pick and then played with his dad for the Chiefs.
December 21st, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
Is this some kind of code that gives instructions to the vast network?
December 21st, 2023 at 2:53 PM ^
First activity in over two years ... hmm ...
December 21st, 2023 at 2:15 PM ^
Who and Why?
December 21st, 2023 at 2:35 PM ^
The guy was a tackle and this is off topic so you missed two chances to put OT in the title.
December 21st, 2023 at 3:55 PM ^
Could have been the rare double OT. Either way, would have been a loss like the bball game vs Florida.
December 21st, 2023 at 4:02 PM ^
damn.
December 21st, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
The only real links I could see why this might be remotely relevant to a University of Michigan fan message board is because his son played at USC, who is a future B1G opponent, and that the man played at a high school in Detroit, which is located in the state of Michigan. Other than that, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
December 21st, 2023 at 3:12 PM ^
RCMB is a left turn at the landfill.
December 21st, 2023 at 3:39 PM ^
User name checks out.
December 21st, 2023 at 3:19 PM ^
December 21st, 2023 at 3:31 PM ^
I didn't even know he was sick.
December 21st, 2023 at 3:50 PM ^
They were the only father son duo both drafted in the first round I believe.
December 21st, 2023 at 4:24 PM ^
Bruce and Jake Matthews? Also Clay and Clay Matthews? Maybe these guys were the first?
Edit: also the Devin Bushes, which should have been first to my mind. And the Mannings are quite famous. We don’t talk about the Bosas.
December 21st, 2023 at 5:36 PM ^
They were the only father son duo both drafted in the first round I believe.
For the same team, according to wikipedia
December 21st, 2023 at 3:53 PM ^
Outliving Keith Jackson is quite the feat.
December 22nd, 2023 at 2:51 AM ^
Don't tell me something is wrong with Keith.
December 21st, 2023 at 3:59 PM ^
RIP Buddy
December 21st, 2023 at 4:28 PM ^
Great movie marred by a terrible hokum ending
December 21st, 2023 at 4:29 PM ^
If not mistaken he owned Budde’Industrial Bar somewhere in Detroit.
December 21st, 2023 at 4:40 PM ^
that was weird.
December 23rd, 2023 at 5:33 PM ^
When is your next appearance at the Comedy Club? Would you comp me a ticket?
December 21st, 2023 at 4:50 PM ^
Well, I know that Bill Bonds was a Denby graduate.....
December 21st, 2023 at 5:48 PM ^
I sincerely apologize for my lack of knowledge regarding items of interest to football fans in the State of Michigan.
Ed Budde was a very big deal in Michigan for about eight years from 1952 to 1960. I was at a table with several members of the 1948-1949 UM Football Team earlier a few years ago and his name came up in the conversation. Howard Cooper, a local new car dealership was the team manager of those teams. It was an item of conversation because they were discussing the difference in physical sizes of football players then and now. Some of those former Michigan players were less than 6-feet tall and weighed less than 175 pounds and Ed Budde was a big guy.
Didn’t more than 70% of the posters here opined to fire our current coach? That's genius.
He wasn’t sick...he caught cancer
I was not aware that my post was so out of line with with the hilarious and/or informative posts of other readers here and I apologize again for stepping out of bounds, but hmm, remember to buy those Omaha Steaks as another post advised. They can last two years in a freezer.
Hey, it’s the cocktail hour so pound a few down and really get on me…gin works best for that shit.
December 21st, 2023 at 5:59 PM ^
Did you just go in on Seth for posting an ad? That can’t go over well.
December 21st, 2023 at 6:06 PM ^
I appreciate the post. OT is all you needed for cover against the criticism. Keith Dorney, PSU grad in late 70s and Lions first round pick in 78, was a giant (at the time) at 265 pounds.
December 21st, 2023 at 6:06 PM ^
Stop drinking and take the dog for a walk.
December 23rd, 2023 at 5:03 PM ^
You missed the point.......the more you drink then everything is bettter
December 23rd, 2023 at 5:03 PM ^
You missed the point.......the more you drink then everything is bettter
December 21st, 2023 at 7:35 PM ^
You put a little too much whiskey in the eggnog, Pal.
December 21st, 2023 at 8:56 PM ^
I think that you really just needed to give us a little more to go on, that's all. Some of us were born around the time he was retiring. Admittedly, I knew the name because I vaguely remember watching his son play growing up in the 1980s.
December 23rd, 2023 at 5:28 PM ^
I appreciate your comment and will respond as you are one of the very few on this board who doesn't that he has a genetic connection to Will Rogers. Of course they probably don't know who Will Rogers is because he is not on Twitter (X). Look, I'm old at 79, have B and Law School Degrees and find funny stuff well, funny. It still is amazing to me that Blogs begat verbal and keyboard diarrhea, but who really needs that shit? I am more amused than bothered by the responses: who and why (hey sport, click on Google)......RMCB is a left turn at the landfill (haha I shat my pants at that ome)....User name checks out (who does that and do they get more points for being the first to point that out)?
But then, a lot of the other comments were in fact humorous and i know know that Bill Bonds went to Denby,
The bottom line though is that the continuous stupid attempts at humor causes one to look at the alternative, don't you think?
December 21st, 2023 at 4:53 PM ^
Rip Ken Calvert
December 21st, 2023 at 5:55 PM ^
Birmingham Brother Rice grad, I believe? Voice of Chuck Roast on WRIF as well as the Detroit Pistons during the Bad Boy era?
December 21st, 2023 at 5:28 PM ^
His son started in three Rose Bowls for USC. Could have used him in that Late 70s Michigan offense. Best wishes to his family.
December 23rd, 2023 at 5:30 PM ^
Thank you....I learned a few things from the responses.
Sparty really was the bettter team through most of the 60's
December 21st, 2023 at 5:46 PM ^
I remember Brad Budde and student body left at USC with Anthony Munoz. I love the tradition of Michigan offensive linemen but USC was a fierce rival in the late 70s.
December 21st, 2023 at 5:55 PM ^
December 21st, 2023 at 7:45 PM ^
I don't mind these stories at all. If you don't care, no need to click. That's OK too. If a star player from a rival dies, it is still interesting to read the story.
Too bad Bo couldn't convince Brad to come to UM, but by then he was in KC and then went to Student Body Right U (USC) at a time USC was the land of great college RBs (Anthony Davis, Ricky Bell, Charles White, etc.)
December 22nd, 2023 at 2:49 AM ^
My dad was a couple years in front of Budde at Denby. The house I grew up in till I was 4 was just a couple blocks away from where Budde grew up on the east side. Because of this I grew up rooting for the Chiefs along with the Lions.
December 26th, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
My late mother was a few years behind at Denby and grew up a block away from the school on Riad.
Appreciate hearing these old Detroit stories - such talent there in the 50s and 60s.
Mandatory Michigan Content - mom used to babysit for Bo.
December 22nd, 2023 at 11:33 AM ^
I thought Budde was a guard and Jim Tyrer the tackle that played next to him on those great KC Chiefs teams of the 60's (did I have those two positions mixed up?) They were both long time all AFL guys. As I recall, Tyrer killed his wife after he retired.