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From Rebels football team to Super Bowl champ
Champlin Park
alum Humber
refl ects on
big game
By SOPHIA KHORI
[e-mail]
Brooklyn Park-raised
Ramon Humber was a
three-sport athlete for
most of high school as
he played football, bas-
ketball and was a track
team member.
Soon enough, football
became the focus and the
career highlights rolled
in. According to Nick
Keenan, varsity assis-
tant during Humber’s ca-
reer and Champlin Park
Football’s current head
coach, Humber received
All-Conference honors
in 2002, 2003 and 2004,
and made the Associated
Press All-state fi rst team,
KARE 11/Star Tribune
All-Metro team and
the Minnesota Vikings
All-State team in 2004.
Additionally, Humber
was named Northwest
Suburban Conference
Most Valuable Defen-
sive Player in 2004. That
year he made 110 tackles
and two interceptions as
linebacker, and he also
played fullback and aver-
aged 4.7 yards per carry
and scored seven touch-
downs in that position.
Mike Korton was the
Rebels head coach dur-
ing Humber’s last two
seasons. Looking back
on coaching Humber,
Korton said,“It was ex-
cellent, he is one heck of
an athlete, just very quiet
and soft-spoken, gets to
business, does his thing
and is fun to be around.
He was very much a lead-
er of our football team
and the reason we were
11-0 his senior year.”
Korton also coached
Anderson
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his voice not only prema-
turely, but permanently.
There are hundreds
of others like Prince
who have died of opioid
overdose yet their deaths
go unnoticed by most
(PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS/DAVID SILVERMAN)
Ramon Humber joined the Patriots for a second time during his
career four days after being cut from the Bills and just in time for
playoffs.
(PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS/DAVID SILVERMAN)
Humber on the varsity
basketball team where
Humber was placed his
sophomore year.
After graduating from
Champlin Park in 2005,
Humber started as line-
backer for the North
Dakota State University
Bison for four years.
“I played football for
NDSU, and it was a great
experience,”
Humber
said. Although the NFL
was the ultimate goal, he
was not drafted in 2009
and instead signed to the
Indianapolis Colts as a
rookie free agent. “I was
from a small school, so
I was looked down upon
and doubted,” Humber
said.
Now the Patriots line-
backer has 10 years of
NFL experience under
his belt, and he’s played
in two Super Bowls.
Through his career he’s
played for the Indianap- olis Colts, New Orleans
Saints, New England
Patriots and the Buffalo
Bills.
“It’s been great watch-
ing him at the different
places, following his ca-
reer, and seeing him be-
ing able to maintain and
hold on as long as he can.
You don’t see too many
people in the NFL that
many years,” Humber’s
former coach, Korton,
said.
Similar to the chal-
lenge with being un-
drafted at the front of
his NFL experience,
the ups and downs con-
tinued through his ca-
reer, as most contracts
are signed for a limited
timeframe and can be
cut short.
Most recently, Hum-
ber was cut by the Bills
in November. He signed
with the Bills in summer
2016 and re-signed again
of us because they are
rarely identifi ed publicly,
but they matter. They,
like Prince, contributed
something to this world.
They were somebody’s
child, brother, mother,
sister, father, co-worker
or grandparent. Their
deaths should not evapo-
rate into the haze of our
hectic world.
In April, we will exam-
ine the opioid epidemic in a three-part series that
will be shared in this pa-
per, across other APG
properties in Minnesota
and nationally. Our hope
is to shed more light on
the problem, highlight
the damage it is infl icting
and report on possible
solutions that are being
pursued.
If you have something
to share, whether you
have been affected by it,
Patriots linebacker and Champlin Park High School alum Ramon Humber poses with the Vince Lombardi
Trophy after winning the Super Bowl.
in both 2017 and 2018.
His last contract wasn’t
supposed to be up until
next month.
Four days after be-
ing cut, Humber signed
with the Patriots. When
he found out he’d be able
to continue playing with
a team he had previously
been a part of, he said, “I
was just excited to be go-
ing back to a place I was
familiar with, and I was
excited to play.” During
the 2018 season he ap-
peared in six games and
contributed nine tackles
on the road to the 53rd
Super Bowl.
When the Patriots de-
feated the Rams in At-
lanta earlier this month,
it was Humber’s second

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