Daniel Joseph Manucci is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 quarterback

Quarterback

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 and sports radio

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 personality.

Manucci played his short National Football League

National Football League

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 career as a backup for the Buffalo Bills

Buffalo Bills

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 in the early 1980s, and returned to the team in 1987 during the player's strike

1987 NFL season

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, playing as a replacement player

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. He also played for the Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

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's Toronto Argonauts

Toronto Argonauts

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 (1981) and the United States Football League

United States Football League

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's Arizona Wranglers

Arizona Wranglers

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 (1983)

He is currently co-host of the sports radio talk show "Calling All Sports with Roc and Manuch;" the show was previously a weekend show on Sporting News Radio

Sporting News Radio

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, but is currently a daily local show on KDUS

KDUS

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 in Phoenix, Arizona

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