Robert Joseph Hyland is a former American football

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 guard

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 who played eleven seasons in the National Football League

National Football League

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 for the Green Bay Packers

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, Chicago Bears

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, New York Giants

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, and the New England Patriots

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. He played college football

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 at Boston College

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 and was drafted

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 in the first round (ninth overall) of the 1967 NFL Draft

1967 NFL Draft

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. He played high school football at Archbishop Stepinac High School

Archbishop Stepinac High School

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 (Class of 1963).

Hyland currently owns the Sports Page pub and Sports Page in White Plains, New York.

He is running as the republican candidate for mayor of White Plains, New York

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. A special election will be held on March 31 in the wake of mayor Adam Bradley

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's resignation.