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| Position: | Running back Return specialist | ||||||||||
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| Born: | October 4, 1949 Moline, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 197 lb (89 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Theodore Roosevelt (Kent, Ohio) | ||||||||||
| College: | Northwestern | ||||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1971 / round: 5 / pick: 120 | ||||||||||
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Michael David Adamle (born October 4, 1949) is an American former football player and sports broadcaster. He played professionally as a running back in the National Football League (NFL).
Adamle was a sports anchor at other Chicago television stations, including WLS-TV from 1982 to 1989 before hosting American Gladiators, a first stint at WMAQ-TV from 1998 to 2001, and then at WBBM-TV from 2001 to 2004 before returning to WMAQ-TV until 2017, when he was diagnosed with CTE-induced dementia which eventually forced his retirement.
For much of 2008, Adamle worked for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in a variety of roles, including interviewer, play-by-play commentator, and General Manager of Raw.