Blaine Saipaia (born August 25, 1978) is a former
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
offensive lineman. He was originally signed by the
New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. Since 1975, the te ...
as an
undrafted free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under contract at present but who is a ...
in 2000. He played
college football at
Colorado State.
After retiring from the NFL, Saipaia became an assistant coach at
Poudre High School in
Fort Collins, Colorado. In 2017, he joined
Canton McKinley High School
McKinley Senior High School is a public high school in Canton, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Canton City School District and has two campuses: Downtown Campus (mostly known as Early College High School or Timken High ...
in
Canton, Ohio as freshman football coach. He later became a school resource assistant and by 2019 varsity head coach.
[https://www.cantonmckinley.com/sports/football/coach/54]
References
External links
Detroit Lions bio
1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Oxnard, California
American football offensive tackles
American football offensive guards
American football centers
American football tight ends
Colorado State Rams football players
New Orleans Saints players
Tennessee Titans players
Oakland Raiders players
Denver Broncos players
St. Louis Rams players
Detroit Lions players
American sportspeople of Samoan descent
Players of American football from San Diego
Players of American football from Ventura County, California
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