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Role
  
College
  
NFL draft
  
1965 / Round:

Positions
  
Name
  
Earsell Mackbee


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Date of birth
  
(1941-01-15)January 15, 1941

Place of birth
  
Date of death
  
November 9, 2009(2009-11-09) (aged 68)

Died
  
November 9, 2009, Vallejo, California, United States

Place of death
  
Vallejo, California

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Earsell Mackbee (January 15, 1941 – November 9, 2009) was a professional American football player.

Mackbee was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi and served as an airman in the USAF. He graduated from Utah State University, where he starred as a cornerback. He played five seasons in the National Football League, all with the Minnesota Vikings. Mackbee was a starting cornerback on the Vikings’ Purple People Eaters defense and made 15 interceptions in his career. He started in Super Bowl IV, but injured himself when he missed a tackle on Kansas City Chiefs' receiver Otis Taylor.

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After retiring from the NFL in 1970, Mackbee became an entrepreneur, opening a chain of restaurants and other business ventures. He also worked as a counselor and advisor for City Inc, a Minneapolis outreach and educational program.

In 2005, Mackbee suffered a stroke and was thereafter in a hospice. On October 16, 2009, his condition deteriorated, and his family rallied to fulfill his last wish of returning him to his roots in Vallejo, California. Ten days after donations allowed his family to charter a plane to fly him back to Vallejo, Mackbee died on November 9, 2009. He is interred at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery.

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