Date of birth | August 12, 1948 |
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Place of birth | Madison, Wisconsin |
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Position(s) | Tight End |
College | Wisconsin |
NFL draft | 1970 / Round: 10 / Pick 259 |
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1970–1980 | Minnesota Vikings |
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Stu Voigt born Stuart Alan Voigt is a former NFL tight end. Voigt was born in 1948 in the Westmorland district of Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Madison West High School in 1966, where he was an all-state running back and track and field standout. His state record in shot put of 66 feet 7 inches, set in 1966, was not broken until 2005. He accepted a football scholarship to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a star halfback and tight end on some of the worst teams in Badger history, which won just three games from 1967 - 1969.
In 1970, Voigt was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings and played in three Super Bowls before retiring after the 1980 season. From 1981 to 1989, he was a color commentator on Vikings radio broadcasts.
He is the former Chairman of the Board of First Commercial Bank in Bloomington, Minnesota. In April 2006 he approved a loan increase and extension to Hennessy Financial, LLC owner Jeffrey Gardner, who personally owed him 4.5 million dollars. Gardner failed to disclose the debt.
After facing charges in a Ponzi scheme: two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud; four counts of mail fraud; five counts of bank fraud; and seven counts of giving false statements on a loan application. He also faced sixteen counts of making monetary transactions in criminally-derived property, two counts of making false statements to the FDIC .