Robert Malcolm Schmidt (born July 9, 1936), nicknamed "Two Bud", is an American former professional

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player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) and

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(AFL). Schmidt played

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for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and professionally between 1959 and 1967. He started with the NFL's

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and then moved to the new AFL's Houston Oilers in 1961. He was a member of the Oilers' American Football League Championship team in 1961, and was an

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in 1961, 1962, and 1963. He finished his professional football career in 1967 with the AFL's

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. Schmidt now lives in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg, New York, with his wife Mary Margaret Schmidt (married December 8, 1994 in Rochester, NY).

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