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| Position: | Defensive tackle |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | June 20, 1945 Neptune City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Weight: | 280 lb (127 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Deptford Township (Deptford Township, New Jersey) |
| College: | Penn State |
| NFL draft: | 1967 / Round: 2 / Pick: 53 |
| Career history | |
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| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |
David Homeyer Rowe (born June 20, 1945) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions. After his NFL career, he became a sports commentator.
Football career[edit]
Born in Neptune City, New Jersey, and raised in Deptford Township, New Jersey,[1] Rowe played high school football at Deptford Township High School and college football at Penn State,[2] where he was on the first team coached by Joe Paterno.[3]
He was a second-round draft pick for the New Orleans Saints, where he played for four seasons and was picked for the Pro Bowl in his second season. Following a change of head coaches at the Saints, Rowe was traded to the New England Patriots in 1971, where he played for three seasons under three different coaches. After one full season with the San Diego Chargers, where he served as team captain, he was traded to the Oakland Raiders one game into the 1975 season; the Raiders went on to win Super Bowl XI the following season. He spent his last season with the Baltimore Colts.[3]
Broadcasting career[edit]
After retiring from the NFL in 1979, Rowe worked as a sportscaster for NBC Sports on its Sportsworld series, where he covered sumo, weightlifting and other "non-traditional" sports. In 1987, Rowe was the color analyst alongside Gayle Sierens, who became the first female NFL play-by-play announcer when she called a Seattle Seahawks–Kansas City Chiefs matchup for NBC. He later broadcast college football games for Raycom and Jefferson Pilot, and won an Emmy Award for his last broadcast, where he provided commentary on a game between Central Michigan and Georgia in 2008.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Rowe is a devout Christian and co-founded the Professional Athletes Outreach ministry with eleven other NFL players; he also spoke on two Billy Graham crusades and attended a White House prayer breakfast.[4]
Rowe lived in Asheboro, North Carolina, from 1975 to 2007, when he moved to Boone, North Carolina.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Dave Rowe, NJSports.com. Accessed June 2, 2022. "David Homeyer Rowe was born June 20, 1945 in Neptune City. His family moved to Deptford in South Jersey when he was a boy."
- ^ Dave Rowe Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, database Football. Accessed October 6, 2007.
- ^ a b c d "Super Bowl champ Rowe still living dream life". The Courier-Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ^ Shyrock, Bob (16 October 2012). "Football star and devout Christian to speak at Gloucester County Mayor's Prayer Breakfast". NJ.com. Retrieved 2019-01-24.