Blandin was a standout as a tackle playing college football for the Tulane Green Wave, earning consensus All-American honors as a senior in 1941.

Blandin was selected to play for the Philadelphia Eagles, but he instead joined the military and served in the Pacific theater of World War II.

[1] Blandin was a three-sport athlete in high school, winning a total of 11 letters in football, basketball, and track and field.

He left football before returning for one additional season in 1953 with a new Baltimore Colts franchise established in that year to replace the defunct Dallas Texans of 1952.

[7] After retiring from football, Blandin made his home in Pikesville, Maryland where he worked in sales for the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation and the Ford Motor Company.

His body was interred at Baltimore National Cemetery with friends encouraged to make donations to the American Cancer Society in lieu of flowers at the time of his funeral.