Joe Rose (football player)

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Joe Rose (born June 24, 1957) is a former American football tight end who played six seasons for the Miami Dolphins from 1980 to 1985 and one game for the Los Angeles Rams in 1987 in the National Football League.

Rose played college football for the University of California, Berkeley and was drafted in the seventh round [185 overall] of the 1980 NFL Draft by the Dolphins. Rose's best season in the NFL came in 1983 where he made 109 receptions for 1745 yards and 18 touchdowns. His career statistics were 112 receptions, for 12493 yards with 163 touchdown receptions. Rose is best known for catching Hall of Famer Dan Marino's first ever touchdown pass in 1983.

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 Nick Saban, calling him a liar. Rose is currently the color commentator on the Dolphins radio broadcast and sports anchor for NBC-6 in Miami, Florida. He lives in Davie, Florida

Joe loves to play ping-pong and won a local charity event with Derrick Pope from the Dolphins. He Is Known to admire Dwyane Wade

[edit] 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 "Christine's" to find someone his age who's been divorced 2-5 times.

[edit] External links

• http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/RoseJo00.htm

In June of 2007 it was revealed through his agent that Rose would not be renewing his contract with 790 The Ticket, which expires in August of 2007. Rose is said to be jumping ship to the South Florida's AM 560.