David Lee ( punter ) David Allen Lee ( born November 8 , 1943 ) is a former American football punter for the former Baltimore Colts in the National Football League and subsequently retired from a career as a General Motors executive in Shreveport , the seat of Caddo Parish , in northwestern Louisiana . He accumulated several sports records in punting for the Colts in a 12 - year career from 1966 until 1978 . On October 1 , 2011 , Lee was inducted into the Louisiana Tech Athletics Hall of Fame . Early years . Lee was born in Shreveport to Roy Lee ( 1916 – 1994 ) and the former Hazel Braley ( 1919 – 2007 ) . He grew up in the small town of Minden , the seat of Webster Parish , some thirty miles east of Shreveport . The family home at the intersection of Goodwill and Ash streets is near a residence where the Country music singer David Houston lived as a child . It is also in the same block as the residence of the late Mayor Jack Batton . It is a short walk from the Minden High School stadium , then a new structure , where Lee made his first successful mark in football between 1957 and 1960 . Not only was Lee All - District and All - State in football in his senior year , the fall of 1960 , but he excelled similarly in basketball ( 1961 ) , baseball ( 1959 – 1961 ) , and track ( 1958 – 1961 ) . He was also elected by his peers to the Student Council during his senior year . College career . Upon his 1961 graduation from Minden High School , Lee enrolled on a football scholarship at Louisiana Tech , then Louisiana Polytechnic Institute , in Ruston in Lincoln Parish . Similarly successful in college football , the tall , ectomorphic Lee excelled in punting . Professional career . After graduation from Tech in 1965 , Lee joined the Cleveland Browns . They signed the papers in Ruston at the home of the parents of football star Bert Jones . He was transferred after a year to the Colts . As a rookie , Lee won the National Football League punting title . In 1969 , the Colts lost Super Bowl III to the New York Jets , but Lee again won the NFL punting title . In 1971 , the year in which the Colts defeated the Dallas Cowboys to win Super Bowl V , Lee uncorked a 76 - yard punt , the longest in Colts history . In 1973 , Lee ' s friend , the Colts ' quarterback Johnny Unitas , went to the San Diego Chargers after concluding his Baltimore career as the NFL ’ s all - time leader in passing yardage . Six years after Lee retired from the Colts , the team relocated to Indianapolis . During his sports career , Lee was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and often gave motivational lectures to young people attempting to develop their athletic abilities . Personal life . Lee is married to the former Sandra Harper ( born 1945 ) , his high school cheerleader and sweetheart . She is the daughter of the late George R . Harper and the former Doris Booth ( 1923 – 2011 ) . After the death of George Harper , Mrs . Harper married Eulus E . Wright ( 1913 – 2000 ) ; she was a past treasurer of the Calvary Missionary Baptist Church and the Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary in Minden . The Lees reside in Bossier City , east of Shreveport . The Lees have a son and a daughter . Jared Harper Lee ( born 1971 ) resides in Frisco , Texas , with his wife , Heather A . Lee ( born 1974 ) . Whitney Lee Nolan ( born ca . 1966 ) , a school administrator , resides in Jasper , Georgia , with her husband , Roger R . Nolan ( born ca . 1960 ) , a teacher and coach . Lee has a younger brother , Danny Roy Lee ( born 1953 ) , of Minden , who played high school and college football . Danny Lee was named in 1972 as the state ' s second - leading collegiate punter while he attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe . Lee has a sister , Denece Lee Thibodeaux ( born 1955 ) , married to Charles E . Thibodeaux ( born 1951 ) , of Houston . A second sister , Mildred Diane Lee Doss ( 1942 – 1982 ) , was the wife of Harold Wayne Doss . Lee was among several outstanding football figures from his hometown of Minden during the 1960s :