Joseph Harold Rose is a former American football

American football

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 tight end

Tight end

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 who played six seasons for the Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins

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 from 1980 to 1985 and one game for the Los Angeles Rams

History of the St. Louis Rams

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 in 1987 in the National Football League

National Football League

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Football career

Rose played college football

College football

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 for the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, and was the hero of the 1979 Big Game between Cal and Stanford. He caught the game-winning touchdown pass, which was originally ruled incomplete but later changed (correctly) to a touchdown. He was drafted in the seventh round (185th overall pick) of the 1980 NFL Draft

1980 NFL Draft

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 by the Dolphins. Rose's best season in the NFL came in 1983 where he made 29 receptions

Reception (American football)

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 for 345 yards and 3 touchdown

Touchdown

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s. His career statistics were 112 receptions, for 1493 yards with 13 touchdown receptions. Rose is best known for catching Hall of Famer

Pro Football Hall of Fame

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 Dan Marino

Dan Marino

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's first ever touchdown pass in 1983.

Broadcasting career

After retiring from football, Joe Rose became a radio broadcaster in the Miami area on 560 WQAM AM. He is a vocal critic of former Dolphins head coach

Head coach

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 Nick Saban

Nick Saban

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, calling him a liar. Rose is currently the color commentator

Color commentator

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 on the Dolphins radio broadcast and sports anchor for NBC-6

WTVJ

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 in Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

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. He lives in Davie, Florida

Davie, Florida

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Joe loves to play ping pong

Table tennis

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 and won a local charity event with Derrick Pope

Derrick Pope

Derrick Trayon Pope is a professional American and Canadian football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

 from the Dolphins. He is known to admire Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade

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Valentine's Day Matchmaking

On his Feb 13, 2008 radio show, he pledged to set up 2 of his channel 6 coworkers with "Nice Men" for Valentine's Day or after. He lamented how they were stuck socializing with coworkers and were unable to meet any decent Miami men. The two single ladies in question are meteorologist Jennifer Grey and anchorwoman Julia Yarbough. Interested suitors need not apply if they have crazy ex-wives (From personal experience, Joe wouldn't want to put any woman through that.) but may apply if they're divorced. Joe also requests that interested parties have jobs and are "decent, good" guys.

On Feb 14, 2008, a candidate was dismissed because he was 53 years old. Joe suggested he go to "Christopher's" to find someone his age who's been divorced 2-5 times.

External links

• http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/RoseJo00.htm
• http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-11-16/sports/17180177_1_lake-tahoe-joe-rose-dolphins-uniform