- Paul Rochester
Infobox Pro Football player
Color=Green
fontcolor=white
DateOfBirth=Birth date and age|1938|7|15|mf=y
Birthplace=Lansing, MI
DateOfDeath=
Position=Defensive Tackle
College=Michigan State
AFLDraftedYear=1960
AFLDraftedRound=
Jersey=72
Stats=Y
Career Highlights=Y
DatabaseFootball=ROCHEPAU01
PFR=RochPa00
Honors=
Awards=
Records
years=1960-1962
1963
1964-1969
teams=AFL Dallas Texans
AFLKansas City Chiefs
AFLNew York Jets
AFLAllStar=1961
HOF=Paul "Rocky" Rochester (born 1938) attended
Michigan State University . He played defensive tackle in theAmerican Football League for the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs, and theNew York Jets .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 Colts. After his playing years, he fell to alcoholism, but underwent therapy, and has been sober for 33 years, offering help and hope to others with the problem. Rochester is one of only twenty players who played the entire ten years of the AFL's existence.
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