Blane Smith is a former linebacker

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 in the National Football League

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. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NFL Draft

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 by the Cleveland Browns

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 and was a member of the Green Bay Packers

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that season. He now has two sons one named Blane the other Blake. After his NFL career he went to work for Inland Steel as a sales rep. He was captain of his college football team at Purdue University. How now lives in Detroit Michigan. He is C.E.O of Blane Smith and Associates.