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Joseph Albert Taffoni (March 27, 1945 – July 26, 2021) was a former
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
offensive lineman In gridiron football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage. The linemen of the team currently in possession of the ball are the offensive line, while linemen on the opposing team are the defensive line. A numbe ...
who played six seasons in the
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(NFL) with the
Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference ( ...
and
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fourth round of the
1967 NFL Draft The 1967 National Football League draft was conducted March 14–15, 1967, at the Gotham Hotel in New York City. It was the first common draft with the AFL, part of the AFL–NFL merger agreement of June 1966. This draft was delayed as new gui ...
. He first enrolled at
West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...
before transferring to the University of Tennessee at Martin. Taffoni attended
Carmichaels High School Carmichaels Area Junior/Senior High School is a public Junior/Senior High School, serving around 400 students in grades 6-12, and is located about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh in eastcentral Greene County. Alma Mater The Alma Mater for Carmichael ...
in
Carmichaels, Pennsylvania Carmichaels is a borough in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 434 at the 2020 census, down from 483 at the 2010 census. History The Carmichaels Covered Bridge and Greene Academy are listed on the National Registe ...
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1945 births 2021 deaths Players of American football from Pennsylvania American football offensive linemen West Virginia Mountaineers football players UT Martin Skyhawks football players Cleveland Browns players New York Giants players People from Brownsville, Pennsylvania Sportspeople from Fayette County, Pennsylvania {{offensive-lineman-1940s-stub