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Blaine Berger

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ28540564 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blaine Berger (born December 28, 1970) is an American former football defensive tackle. He played college football at Utah. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Amsterdam Admirals of the World League of American Football (later known as NFL Europe).

He also played for the London Monarchs, Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL), Portland Forest Dragons of the Arena Football League (AFL) and the Las Vegas Outlaws of the XFL.

Early life

Berger attended Idaho Falls High School where he was a First-team All-state, All-area and All-conference defensive tackle. As a junior and senior, Idaho Falls went undefeated and won the Idaho State Football Championship each season, one of which he was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the championship game. While he was there, Idaho Falls never lost a football game.

College career

Berger attended the University of Utah where as a true freshman he redshirt in 1990. In 1991 as a redshirt freshman, he served as a backup nose guard and defensive tackle and recorded 17 tackles and one sack. As a redshirt sophomore in 1992, he recorded 68 tackles, and six sacks. In 1993, as a redshirt junior, he finished second on the team in tackles with 85.

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“Blaine Berger” enters the record as american football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blaine, Berger and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1990, 1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-12-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Blaine, Berger and American.
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“Blaine Berger” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Blaine, Berger and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28540564. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1990, 1991 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blaine Berger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.