Mitch Frerotte
No. 59 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Position: | Offensive guard | ||
Personal information | |||
Date of birth: | March 30, 1965 | ||
Place of birth: | Kittanning, Pennsylvania | ||
Date of death: | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. | ||
Place of death: | Kittanning, Pennsylvania | ||
Career information | |||
College: | Penn State | ||
Career history | |||
|
|||
Career highlights and awards | |||
|
|||
Career NFL statistics | |||
|
Paul Mitchael Frerotte (March 30, 1965 – June 11, 2008) was an American professional football player who played as a guard for four seasons in the National Football League, all with the Buffalo Bills.
Biography
Frerotte is perhaps best known for scoring three touchdowns during the 1992 NFL season,[1] a record for an offensive lineman.[2]
Frerotte played in three Super Bowls: XXV, XXVI, and XXVII. He attended Kittanning High School and Penn State University.[3]
Personal life
Known as "Pit Bull" by his Bills teammates, Frerotte often wore an elaborate mask of eye black during games.[2] He was a well-known Harley-Davidson enthusiast, who once threatened ESPN's Joe Theismann with bodily harm after he mounted Frerotte's motorcycle without permission.[4]
Frerotte is the cousin of NFL quarterback Gus Frerotte. Mitch died from a massive heart attack at his mother's home on June 11, 2008. The coroner's report attributed his death to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart condition which the American Heart Association calls the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes.[5]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mitch Frerotte. |
- Mitch Frerotte's career stats, databasefootball.com
- Pro-Football-Reference.com
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- NFL player using deprecated currentteam parameter
- NFL player with pastcoaching parameter
- NFL player with pastexecutive parameter
- Infobox NFL player with debut/final parameters
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- 1965 births
- 2008 deaths
- American football offensive guards
- Players of American football from Pennsylvania
- Buffalo Bills players
- Penn State Nittany Lions football players
- People from Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
- Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
- American football offensive lineman, 1960s birth stubs