playing_years draftedround birth_place playing_team stats article_title position birth_date college name draftedyear
1970-1973 5 spokane , washington kansas city chiefs y mike oriard
 offensive lineman 26 may 1948 university of notre dame mike oriard 1970
mike oriard

mike oriard was a professional american football player who played offensive lineman for four seasons for the kansas city chiefs .
oriard has gone on to have a distinguished career as a professor of english and later associate dean of the college of liberal arts at oregon state university in corvallis , oregon .
his academic work has centered on american sports nonfiction in multiple mediums .
his bibliography includes `` brand nfl : making and selling america 's favorite sport '' -lrb- published in 2010 -rrb- , `` bowled over : big-time college football from the sixties to the bcs era '' -lrb- published in 2009 -rrb- , `` sporting with the gods : the rhetoric of play and game in american literature '' -lrb- published in 2008 -rrb- , `` king football : sport and spectacle in the golden age of radio and newsreels , movies and magazines , the weekly and the daily press '' -lrb- published in 2003 -rrb- , `` reading football : how the popular press created an american spectacle -lrb- cultural studies of the united states -rrb- '' -lrb- published in 1999 -rrb- , and `` dreaming of heroes : american sports fiction , 1868-1980 '' -lrb- published in 1982 -rrb- .
