Place of birth: Lansing, Michigan Games played: 132 Sacks: 1 Role American football player Weight 116 kg Positions Tackle | College: Michigan State Fumble recoveries: 2 Name Paul Rochester Height 1.88 m Education Michigan State University | |
Date of birth: (1938-07-15) July 15, 1938 (age 77) | ||
Paul Rochester: Football Defensive Tackle
Paul "Rocky" Rochester (born 1938) is a former American football defensive tackle. He played for the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs (1960–1963) and the New York Jets (1964–1969) in the American Football League. He played college football at Michigan State University.
He was an American Football League 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' destruction of the NFL Champion Baltimore Colts. Rochester is one of only twenty players who played the entire ten years of the AFL's existence.
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