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Position: | Defensive tackle | ||||||
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Born: | Lansing, Michigan, U.S. | July 15, 1938||||||
Died: | June 7, 2020 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | (aged 81)||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 255 lb (116 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Sewanhaka (NY) | ||||||
College: | Michigan State | ||||||
Undrafted: | 1960 | ||||||
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Paul "Rocky" Rochester (July 15, 1938 – June 7, 2020)[1] was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the American Football League (AFL). He played for the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs (1960–1963) and the New York Jets (1964–1969). He played college football at Michigan State University.[2]
He was an AFL All-Star in 1961, and he earned an AFL Championship ring with the New York Jets in 1968 and had the only sack of the game; as well as a World Championship with the Jets after the 1968 season, when he was team co-captain in the Jets' upset of the heavily favored NFL Champion Baltimore Colts. Rochester is one of only twenty players who played the entire ten years of the AFL's existence.