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His 22nd season with Green Bay; 38th NFL after 16 seasons with the Jets as an Assistant. Hired in 1977 after receiving his B.S. in Physical Therapy from Northwestern; a year earlier, graduated with honors from Purdue University, with a B.A. in Health and Safety. From Wappingers Falls, N.Y. he attended Ketcham High School, was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2000, in 2011; inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame. In 2013 he was awarded the NFL Physicians Society's "Outstanding NFL Athletic Trainer '12-'13". Burruss has lectured at seven NATA Clinical Symposia, multiple state, district and college meetings, as well as numerous service organizations throughout Wisconsin and on three US aircraft carriers as a part of the Navy Entertainment program. Born Thomas Pepper Burruss on April 15, 1954, he and his wife, Nancy, have a son, Shane, 26, and daughter, Christina, 21, a junior at the University of Minnesota. His wife has her Ph.D. in Nursing Education from Indiana University and is the Dean of Student Services at the Bellin College in Green Bay. After the 2011 Super Bowl he was honored to join a Green Bay Packers' contingent on a US Navy Entertainment visit to the Middle East, in 2014 he accompanied a group to Asia, visiting Japan, Okinawa and Guam. To date he has on three US Aircraft carriers. Burruss hobbies; collecting and studying firearms cartridges; a few downhill ski runs, driving and detailing his award winning 1973 Corvette Stingray show car, and any project that allows him to work with tools.