Rocco Ray Moore (March 31, 1955 - December 21, 2007) was an American football guard in the National Football League (NFL). Moore was born March 31, 1955, in

Charlotte, Michigan Charlotte ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,074. It is the county seat of Eaton County. Charlotte is in the central portion of the county, on the boundary between Eaton Township an ...

. He was an outstanding basketball and football player at Charlotte High School, and went on to play

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for Western Michigan University, where he was named First-team All-Mid-American Conference in 1976, and received four letters. He was drafted to play as a guard in 1977 by the Philadelphia Eagles, and in 1980 signed with the

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, where he played seven games. After leaving the Bears, he returned to Charlotte to become a mortgage broker. He died in 2007 at the age of 52, apparently from a heart attack. In 2005, he was included in the Western Michigan University All Century Football team.

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