Education
Maguire attended Ursuline High School, then played tight end at The Citadel where he led the nation in touchdown receptions in 1959.
Maguire attended Ursuline High School, then played tight end at The Citadel where he led the nation in touchdown receptions in 1959.
In 1960, Maguire was selected as an original American Football League Los Angeles Chargers, where he served as both a punter and linebacker. He moved with the team to San Diego in 1961, and stayed there until 1964 when he joined the Buffalo Bills. Maguire was an ace at the "coffin corner" punt.
He contributed to three Bills" Eastern Division titles, and their American Federation of Labor-Congress championships in 1964 and 1965.
He was involved in one of the most spectacular plays in Bills" history in the 1965 American Football League Championship game against the Chargers. Butch Byrd took a John Hadl punt and with outstanding blocking, took it 74 yards for a touchdown.
The last two blocks were by Maguire, crushing two Chargers. Maguire played in six of the ten American Football League Championship Games — three with the Chargers and three with the Bills, winning three American Federation of Labor-Congress Championship rings, and he was the league"s all-time punter in punts and yardage.
He was one of only twenty players who were in the American Federation of Labor-Congress for its entire ten-year existence.
After his retirement he was inducted into the Youngstown, Ohio Sports Hall of Fame, and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. Beginning in the 1970s, Maguire worked as a color commentator on network NFL telecasts, first with National Broadcasting Company and then Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. He also called Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s telecasts of college football, the Canadian Football League and the now-defunct USFL. Maguire re-joined National Broadcasting Company in 1986 as an analyst on their pregame show, then becoming a color commentator in 1988. Maguire most often worked with Marv Albert on the network"s #2 broadcast team for his first seven seasons working for the network.
In 1995, Maguire and then-Entertainment and Sports Programming Network reporter Philosophy Simms joined Dick Enberg as the #1 broadcast team for National Broadcasting Company, and remained paired until the end of the 1997 season when National Broadcasting Company lost the rights to the NFL. Maguire rejoined Entertainment and Sports Programming Network for the 1998 season and became a second color commentator for Sunday Night Football.
While there he also served as a color commentator for American Broadcasting Company"s Wild Card Saturday games, as the Sunday Night Football team would (usually) broadcast the early game of the day. During the time he was at Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Maguire called playoff games for American Broadcasting Company every year except for 2002, when the network elected to use Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson, its lead college football broadcast team, on Wild Card Saturday.
Maguire, who had a residence in Buffalo after his playing days, hosted a locally produced call-in show called the "Budweiser Sportsline". Later the program was broadcast on the Empire Sports Network.
Maguire worked his last regular season NFL game on January 1, 2006, as the Saint Louis Rams and Dallas Cowboys played on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s final Sunday night broadcast.
His final NFL game altogether came on January 7, 2006, as he worked the Washington Redskins-Tampa Bay Buccaneers opening round playoff game. However, Maguire was retained by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network to serve as a commentator for American Broadcasting Company"s college football with Brad Nessler, former Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese, and field reporter Bonnie Bernstein. In March 2007, Maguire began to serve as an in-studio analyst for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s NFL Live.
Maguire did not return to broadcasting for the 2009 college football season as his broadcast team was split up, with Nessler moving to Saturday night games on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network with Todd Blackledge and Griese moving to Noon games on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network alongside Dave Pasch and Chris Spielman.
He later (2009 – 2010) broadcast games for the then-new United Football League on HDNet, a cable network and streaming service.