Brian Balazik
{{Short description|American football player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
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| position = Quarterback
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| height_ft = 6
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| college = Southern Mississippi
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- Montgomery Maulers (2005)
- Birmingham Steeldogs ({{Af2 Year|2005}})
- Team Alabama (2008)
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Brian Balazik is a former American football quarterback.
College career
Balazik lettered in football at University of Southern Mississippi, only seeing action while backing-up Lee Roberts his senior season, completing 1-of-2 passes for 6 yards and rushing once for -2 yards in two games, one a 42-24 win on October 4, 1997, against Louisville and the other a 33-0 win against Houston. He inexplicably graduated, though, from University of Montevallo.{{cite web | year=1997 | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/1997/players/passing/14168.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010123072600/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/1997/players/passing/14168.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 23, 2001| title=Sports Illustrated College Football | publisher=Sports Illustrated/CNN | accessdate=February 9, 2008}}
Professional career
A part of the expansion Montgomery Maulers's inaugural 2005 season in the National Indoor Football League,{{cite web | year=2005 | url=http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3135659| title=Maulers debut this Saturday | publisher=OurSports Central | accessdate=February 9, 2008}} where the Mauler’s won the Atlantic Conference Central Division Championship.
Balazik was the only quarterback protected by Team Alabama for the 2008 All-American Football League draft.
In July 2009, Balazik accepted the position the head football coach at Oak Mountain Middle School. This school is the feeder for Oak Mountain High School which is a Division 6a Region 6 high school near Oak Mountain, Alabama.
References
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20010123072600/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/1997/players/passing/14168.html sportsillustrated.cnn.com]
- http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3135659
- http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/121585052738110.xml&coll=2&thispage=1{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Southern Miss Golden Eagles football players
Category:American football quarterbacks