:Mel Profit

{{Short description|American gridiron football player (born 1941)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox CFL player

|status=Retired

|import=yes

|image=Mel Profit, 1964.jpg

|caption=Profit in 1964

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1941|7|30}}

|birth_place=New York City, New York, U.S.

|death_date=

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|Height_ft=6

|Height_in=5

|Weight_lbs=230

|College=UCLA

|position1=Slotback

|number=75

|NFLDraftedYear=1963

|NFLDraftedRound=9

|NFLDraftedPick=113

|NFLDraftedTeam=Los Angeles Rams{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=LAM&lg=nfl&yr=1963 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410143245/http://www.databasefootball.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=LAM&lg=nfl&yr=1963 |title=1963 Los Angeles Rams |website=databaseFootball.com |archive-date=April 10, 2007 |url-status=usurped |access-date=July 18, 2020}}

|career_highlights =

• Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy ({{CFL Year|1971}})
• Second-team All-American (1963)
• First-team All-PCC (1963)

|CFLAllStar={{CFL Year|1971}}

|CFLEastAllStar={{CFL Year|1968}}, {{CFL Year|1969}}, {{CFL Year|1970}}, {{CFL Year|1971}}

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|playing_years1={{CFL Year|1966}}–{{CFL Year|1971}}

|playing_team1=Toronto Argonauts

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Mel Profit (born July 30, 1941) is an American former professional Canadian football player who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for six years. He was selected originally by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1963 NFL draft. He starred as a tight end for the Toronto Argonauts.

Profit authored a book entitled For Love, Money and Future Considerations which gave a player's view of the CFL. The book chronicled the 1971 season in which the Toronto Argonauts played in the Grey Cup, losing to the Calgary Stampeders.