Benjamin Franklin "Buck" Belue played American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 and baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

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 from 1978 to 1981. He was the quarterback

Quarterback

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 for the Georgia Bulldogs

Georgia Bulldogs football

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 in 1980, when the team went 12-0, and, after beating Notre Dame

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

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 in the Sugar Bowl

Sugar Bowl

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, was named the consensus national champion. One of the key plays in the 1980 season was a 93-yard touchdown

Touchdown

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 pass from Belue to wide receiver

Wide receiver

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 Lindsay Scott

Lindsay Scott

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that led to a victory over the University of Florida

University of Florida

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, which is still tied with two other passing plays as the longest passing touchdown in Georgia history. Belue was named captain of the 1981 team.

Belue also lettered in baseball all four years at Georgia. His career batting average at Georgia was .356 and he went on to play 3 years in the Montreal Expos

Montreal Expos

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 organization. Currently, Belue co-hosts (with John Kincade

John Kincade

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) midday radio show Buck and Kincade on 680 The Fan

WCNN (AM)

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 in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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. Belue was also inducted into the Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame in 1996.

He is also the only quarterback to start all four years for the Valdosta

Valdosta High School

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 Wildcats, the most successful high school team in the nation, where he was inducted as a member of the Valdosta High School

Valdosta High School

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Hall of Fame in 2007.