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Cyclone Gridiron Greats: Buddying up with Buddy Hardeman

Jared Larson: What have you been up to in regards to career, family, where you’re living, etc.?

Buddy Hardeman: I played football with the Redskins in 1980-1981. I went to work with the Washington Federals (in the USFL). I played there for one year, and I managed a restaurant called Joe Theismann’s for five years. Then I went to the government working for the U.S. Marshals. I also was on a protective detail for a presidential cabinet member for a number of years. After that, I went to the sheriff’s department in Fairfax County, Virginia, and that’s where I retired about four years ago.