Name Joe Jacoby Height: 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Role American football player | Weight: 295 lb (134 kg) College: Louisville Positions Tackle | |
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Date of birth: (1959-07-06) July 6, 1959 (age 56) High school: Louisville (KY) Western | ||
Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky Education University of Louisville | ||
Joe jacoby
Joseph Erwin Jacoby (born July 6, 1959) is a former American football offensive lineman for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL), where he won three Super Bowls during his tenure with the team. Many Redskins' fans and analysts consider Jacoby the greatest Redskins player not currently inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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College career
Jacoby started off as an offensive tackle for the University of Louisville from 1978 to 1980.
Professional career
After college, Jacoby went undrafted. He signed a free agent contract with the Washington Redskins in 1981, where he embarked on an enviable career—four Super Bowl appearances, of which his team won three (XVII in 1983, XXII in 1988, and XXVI in 1992), plus four consecutive Pro Bowl selections from 1983 to 1986.
Along with Jeff Bostic, Mark May, George Starke and Russ Grimm, Jacoby was a founding member of the Redskins' renowned "Hogs" offensive line of the 1980s and early 1990s (deemed one of the best front fives of NFL history), which was a mainstay of the Redskins' glory years during the first Joe Gibbs era.
Jacoby was the lead blocker on John Riggins' famous touchdown run which ensured the Redskins' Super Bowl XVII win over the Dolphins in 1983. In that game, the Redskins set a Super Bowl record for most rushing yards with 276. The Hogs helped the Redskins break that record five years later in Super Bowl XXII, in which Washington trampled over the Denver Broncos with 280 rushing yards en route to the second of the Redskins' three championships.
Personal
One year after the Redskins' third Super Bowl victory in 1992, Jacoby hung up his cleats and retired, after which he became the owner of an auto dealership in Warrenton, Virginia. He no longer owns the dealership as of February, 2008.
Jacoby became an Assistant Football Coach at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. He began as a part-time volunteer in 2008 and was hired as a full-time employee in 2009.
In 2014, Jacoby was hired as the Offensive Line Coach for Concordia University Chicago.
He has a wife, Irene, and 2 daughters.