Corbin James Lacina (born November 2, 1970) 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 and Midwest Emmy award-winning sports broadcaster who played eleven seasons in the

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, mainly for the Buffalo Bills and

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. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 1993 NFL Draft by the Bills. He played high school football for

Cretin-Derham Hall High School Cretin-Derham Hall High School (CDH) is a private, co-educational Catholic high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota operated by the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is co-sponsored by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and the Sist ...

and college football at Augustana College. During his NFL career he was given the nickname Karate Corbin, because he is an 8th degree black belt.

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