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| name = Vito "Babe" Parilli | | name = Vito "Babe" Parilli | ||
| image = Babe Parilli - 1952 Bowman Large.jpg | | image = Babe Parilli - 1952 Bowman Large.jpg | ||
| caption = 1952 Bowman football card | | caption = 1952 Bowman football card | ||
| number = 15, 18, 10 | | number = 15, 18, 26, 10 | ||
| position = [[Quarterback]] | | position = [[Quarterback]] | ||
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|5|7}} | | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|5|7}} | ||
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| high_school = [[Rochester Area High School (Pennsylvania)|Rochester]] | | high_school = [[Rochester Area High School (Pennsylvania)|Rochester]] | ||
| college = [[Kentucky Wildcats football|Kentucky]] | | college = [[Kentucky Wildcats football|Kentucky]] | ||
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| pastteams = * [[Green Bay Packers]] ( | | pastteams = | ||
* [[Cleveland Browns]] ( | * [[Green Bay Packers]] ({{NFL Year|1952|1953}}) | ||
* Green Bay Packers ( | * [[Cleveland Browns]] ({{NFL Year|1956}}) | ||
* [[Ottawa Rough Riders]] ( | * Green Bay Packers ({{NFL Year|1957|1958}}) | ||
* [[Oakland Raiders]] ([[1960 | * [[Ottawa Rough Riders]] ({{CFL Year|1959}}) | ||
* [[New England Patriots|Boston Patriots]] ([[1961 | * [[Oakland Raiders]] ([[1960 American Football League season|1960]]) | ||
* [[New York Jets]] ([[1968 | * [[History of the New England Patriots|Boston Patriots]] ([[1961 American Football League season|1961]]–[[1967 American Football League season|1967]]) | ||
| pastcoaching = * [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] ( | * [[New York Jets]] ([[1968 American Football League season|1968]]–[[1969 American Football League season|1969]]) | ||
* [[New York Stars (WFL)|New York Stars]] ([[1974 WFL season|1974]]) | | pastcoaching = | ||
* [[Denver Broncos]] ({{NFL Year|1977 | * [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] ({{NFL Year|1973}}) <br> Quarterbacks | ||
* [[New England Patriots]] ({{NFL Year|1981}}) | * [[New York Stars (WFL)|New York Stars]] ([[1974 WFL season|1974]]) <br> Head coach | ||
* [[Denver Gold]] ({{USFL Year|1984}}) | * [[Denver Broncos]] ({{NFL Year|1977|1979}}) <br> Quarterbacks | ||
* [[New England Steamrollers]] ({{AFL Year|1988}}) | * [[New England Patriots]] ({{NFL Year|1981}}) <br> Quarterbacks | ||
* [[Denver Dynamite (arena football)|Denver Dynamite]] ({{AFL Year|1989}}–{{AFL Year|1991}}) | * [[Denver Gold]] ({{USFL Year|1984}}) <br> Offensive coordinator | ||
* [[Charlotte Rage]] ({{AFL Year|1992}}) | * [[New England Steamrollers]] ({{AFL Year|1988}}) <br> Head coach | ||
* [[Las Vegas Sting]] ({{AFL Year|1994}}–{{AFL Year|1995}}) | * [[Denver Dynamite (arena football)|Denver Dynamite]] ({{AFL Year|1989}}–{{AFL Year|1991}}) <br> Head coach | ||
* [[Charlotte Rage]] ({{AFL Year|1992}}) <br> Head coach | |||
* [[Las Vegas Sting]] ({{AFL Year|1994}}–{{AFL Year|1995}}) <br> Head coach | |||
* [[Anaheim Piranhas]] ({{AFL Year|1996}}) | * [[Anaheim Piranhas]] ({{AFL Year|1996}}) | ||
* [[Florida Bobcats]] ({{AFL Year|1997}}) | * [[Florida Bobcats]] ({{AFL Year|1997}}) <br> Head coach | ||
| highlights = * [[List of Super Bowl champions|Super Bowl champion]] ([[Super Bowl III|III]]) | | highlights = | ||
* [[List of Super Bowl champions|Super Bowl champion]] ([[Super Bowl III|III]]) | |||
* [[AFL Championship Game|AFL champion]] ([[1968 American Football League Championship Game|1968]]) | * [[AFL Championship Game|AFL champion]] ([[1968 American Football League Championship Game|1968]]) | ||
* [[National Football League Comeback Player of the Year Award|AFL Comeback Player of the Year]] (1966) | * [[National Football League Comeback Player of the Year Award|AFL Comeback Player of the Year]] (1966) | ||
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* First-team [[All-AFL]] ([[American Football League All-League Teams|1964]]) | * First-team [[All-AFL]] ([[American Football League All-League Teams|1964]]) | ||
* 3× [[American Football League All-Star game|AFL All-Star]]<!-- selection--> (1963, 1964, 1966) | * 3× [[American Football League All-Star game|AFL All-Star]]<!-- selection--> (1963, 1964, 1966) | ||
*[[List of National Football League annual pass completion percentage leaders#American Football League|AFL completion percentage leader]] (1961) | * [[List of National Football League annual pass completion percentage leaders#American Football League|AFL completion percentage leader]] (1961) | ||
*[[List of National Football League annual passing yards leaders#AFL annual passing yards leaders|AFL passing yards leader]] (1964) | * [[List of National Football League annual passing yards leaders#AFL annual passing yards leaders|AFL passing yards leader]] (1964) | ||
* 1966 [[AFL All-Star Game MVP]] | * 1966 [[AFL All-Star Game MVP]] | ||
* 2× Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1950 College Football All-America Team|1950]], [[1951 College Football All-America Team|1951]]) | * 2× Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1950 College Football All-America Team|1950]], [[1951 College Football All-America Team|1951]]) | ||
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| pfr = PariBa00 | | pfr = PariBa00 | ||
| CollegeHOF = 1783 | | CollegeHOF = 1783 | ||
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'''Vito '''"'''Babe'''"''' Parilli''' (May 7, 1930 – July 15, 2017) was an American [[gridiron football|football]] [[quarterback]] and coach who played professionally for 18 seasons. Parilli spent five seasons in the [[National Football League]] (NFL), three in the [[Canadian Football League]] (CFL), and 10 in the [[American Football League]] (AFL). He played [[college football]] at the [[University of Kentucky]], where he twice received consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] honors and won two consecutive [[bowl game]]s. | '''Vito '''"'''Babe'''"''' Parilli''' (May 7, 1930 – July 15, 2017) was an American [[gridiron football|football]] [[quarterback]] and coach who played professionally for 18 seasons. Parilli spent five seasons in the [[National Football League]] (NFL), three in the [[Canadian Football League]] (CFL), and 10 in the [[American Football League]] (AFL). He played [[college football]] at the [[University of Kentucky]], where he twice received consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] honors and won two consecutive [[bowl game]]s. | ||
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Parilli completed his career with the [[1968 New York Jets season|New York Jets]], where he earned a ring as [[Joe Namath]]'s backup in [[Super Bowl III]], when the Jets stunned the [[1968 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore Colts]] by a 16–7 score. Coincidentally, this gave the Jets two quarterbacks from Pennsylvania's [[Beaver County, Pennsylvania|Beaver County]], with Parilli being from Rochester and Namath being from nearby [[Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania|Beaver Falls]]. In addition, both played for "Bear" Bryant in college, as Namath played at [[1964 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]. In 1967, it was discovered by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine that Parilli and several other professional athletes were regular patrons of [[Patriarca crime family]] mobster Arthur Ventola's major fencing operation called Arthur's Farm in [[Revere, Massachusetts]]. Despite the organized crime connection, journalist [[Howie Carr]] stated that there was never any inside information passed between Parilli and Ventola. Arthur was the uncle of mob associate [[Richard Castucci]]. | Parilli completed his career with the [[1968 New York Jets season|New York Jets]], where he earned a ring as [[Joe Namath]]'s backup in [[Super Bowl III]], when the Jets stunned the [[1968 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore Colts]] by a 16–7 score. Coincidentally, this gave the Jets two quarterbacks from Pennsylvania's [[Beaver County, Pennsylvania|Beaver County]], with Parilli being from Rochester and Namath being from nearby [[Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania|Beaver Falls]]. In addition, both played for "Bear" Bryant in college, as Namath played at [[1964 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]. In 1967, it was discovered by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine that Parilli and several other professional athletes were regular patrons of [[Patriarca crime family]] mobster Arthur Ventola's major fencing operation called Arthur's Farm in [[Revere, Massachusetts]]. Despite the organized crime connection, journalist [[Howie Carr]] stated that there was never any inside information passed between Parilli and Ventola. Arthur was the uncle of mob associate [[Richard Castucci]]. | ||
Besides his considerable skills as a quarterback, he was one of the best holders in the history of football and was nicknamed "gold-finger" as a result of kicker Jim Turner's then-record 145 points kicked in [[1968 New York Jets season|1968]] (plus another 19 points in the play-offs and in [[Super Bowl III]]). He is one of only 20 players who were in the American Football League for its entire ten-year existence, and is a member of the [[Kentucky Wildcats|University of Kentucky Athletic]] Hall of Fame. In 1982, Parilli was named to the [[College Football Hall of Fame]]. | Besides his considerable skills as a quarterback, he was one of the best holders in the history of football and was nicknamed "gold-finger" as a result of kicker Jim Turner's then-record 145 points kicked in [[1968 New York Jets season|1968]] (plus another 19 points in the play-offs and in [[Super Bowl III]]). He is one of only 20 players who were in the American Football League for its entire ten-year existence, and is a member of the [[Kentucky Wildcats|University of Kentucky Athletic]] Hall of Fame. In 1982, Parilli was named to the [[College Football Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Babe Parilli (1982) |url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1783 |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=National Football Foundation}}</ref> | ||
Because of their [[Italian Americans|Italian]] surnames, the Patriots' wide receiver-quarterback duo of Cappelletti and Parilli was nicknamed "[[Grand Opera]]." | Because of their [[Italian Americans|Italian]] surnames, the Patriots' wide receiver-quarterback duo of Cappelletti and Parilli was nicknamed "[[Grand Opera]]." | ||
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Vito "Babe" Parilli (May 7, 1930 – July 15, 2017) was an American football quarterback and coach who played professionally for 18 seasons. Parilli spent five seasons in the National Football League (NFL), three in the Canadian Football League (CFL), and 10 in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football at the University of Kentucky, where he twice received consensus All-American honors and won two consecutive bowl games.
Parilli achieved his greatest professional success in the AFL as the starting quarterback of the Boston Patriots from 1961 to 1967. He earned three All-Star Game selections, while leading the Patriots to their only AFL postseason and championship game appearance in 1963. Present for the entirety of the AFL's existence, Parilli played his final seasons for the New York Jets and was part of the team that won a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl III. After retiring as a player, he served as a coach in the NFL, World Football League (WFL), and Arena Football League (AFL) from 1973 to 1997. He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.
Early life
Parilli was born and raised in Rochester, Pennsylvania, an industrial town northwest of Pittsburgh, Parilli graduated from Rochester High School in 1948.
College career
Parilli played college football at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and was a quarterback for the Wildcats under head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. He was a consensus All-American in 1950 and 1951 and was fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1950 and third in 1951. He led the Wildcats to victories in consecutive New Year's Day bowl games in the 1951 Sugar Bowl and 1952 Cotton Bowl.
Statistics
| Season | Passing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comp | Att | Yards | Comp% | TD | INT | |
| 1949 | 81 | 150 | 1081 | 54.0 | 8 | 13 |
| 1950 | 114 | 203 | 1627 | 56.2 | 23 | 12 |
| 1951 | 136 | 239 | 1643 | 56.9 | 19 | 12 |
| Career Total | 331 | 592 | 4351 | 55.9 | 50 | 37 |
Football career
Early years
Parilli was the fourth overall selection of the 1952 NFL draft, taken by the Green Bay Packers. He played two seasons with the Packers and was then drafted into the United States Air Force and to the Cleveland Browns. Fulfilling his ROTC commitment, he became a lieutenant in the Air Force and, like a lot of other pros, played service football. When his service was over he played a season with the Cleveland Browns in 1956, two more with the Packers, and another with Ottawa in 1959.
AFL
At age 30, Parilli was picked up by the Oakland Raiders of the fledgling American Football League on August 17, 1960,[1] and threw for just over 1,000 yards that season.
On April 4, 1961, he was part of a five-player trade that sent him to the Boston Patriots,[2][3] and he went on to become one of the AFL's most productive and colorful players. Playing for the Patriots from 1961 through 1967, Parilli finished his career with over 25,000 total yards and 200 touchdowns, ending among the top five quarterbacks in 23 categories such as passing yards, passing touchdowns and rushing yards. Parilli was selected for three All-Star Games. In 1964, throwing primarily to Gino Cappelletti, Parilli amassed nearly 3,500 yards passing with 31 touchdowns; the latter was a Patriots record until Tom Brady broke it in 2007. During that season's contest against the Oakland Raiders on October 16, he threw for 422 yards and four touchdown passes in a 43–43 tie. Parilli is a member of the Patriots All-1960s (AFL) Team.
Parilli completed his career with the New York Jets, where he earned a ring as Joe Namath's backup in Super Bowl III, when the Jets stunned the Baltimore Colts by a 16–7 score. Coincidentally, this gave the Jets two quarterbacks from Pennsylvania's Beaver County, with Parilli being from Rochester and Namath being from nearby Beaver Falls. In addition, both played for "Bear" Bryant in college, as Namath played at Alabama. In 1967, it was discovered by Life magazine that Parilli and several other professional athletes were regular patrons of Patriarca crime family mobster Arthur Ventola's major fencing operation called Arthur's Farm in Revere, Massachusetts. Despite the organized crime connection, journalist Howie Carr stated that there was never any inside information passed between Parilli and Ventola. Arthur was the uncle of mob associate Richard Castucci.
Besides his considerable skills as a quarterback, he was one of the best holders in the history of football and was nicknamed "gold-finger" as a result of kicker Jim Turner's then-record 145 points kicked in 1968 (plus another 19 points in the play-offs and in Super Bowl III). He is one of only 20 players who were in the American Football League for its entire ten-year existence, and is a member of the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. In 1982, Parilli was named to the College Football Hall of Fame.[4]
Because of their Italian surnames, the Patriots' wide receiver-quarterback duo of Cappelletti and Parilli was nicknamed "Grand Opera."
Parilli retired as a player at the age of 40 in August 1970.[5]
Career statistics
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| Won the Super Bowl | |
| Led the league | |
| Bold | Career high |
| Underline | Incomplete data |
Regular season
| Year | Team | Games | Passing | Rushing | Sacked | Fum | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | Lng | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Y/A | Lng | TD | Sck | SckY | |||
| 1952 | GB | 12 | 4 | 2–2 | 77 | 177 | 43.5 | 1,416 | 8.0 | 90 | 13 | 17 | 56.6 | 32 | 106 | 3.3 | 19 | 1 | — | 127 | 4 |
| 1953 | GB | 12 | 5 | 0–5 | 74 | 166 | 44.6 | 830 | 5.0 | 45 | 4 | 19 | 28.5 | 42 | 171 | 4.1 | 19 | 4 | — | 161 | 8 |
| 1956 | CLE | 5 | 3 | 1–2 | 24 | 49 | 49.0 | 409 | 8.3 | 68 | 3 | 7 | 58.5 | 18 | 65 | 3.6 | 19 | 0 | — | 63 | 4 |
| 1957 | GB | 12 | 1 | 0–1 | 39 | 102 | 38.2 | 669 | 6.6 | 75 | 4 | 12 | 34.8 | 24 | 83 | 3.5 | 20 | 2 | — | 125 | 3 |
| 1958 | GB | 12 | 4 | 1–3 | 68 | 157 | 43.3 | 1,068 | 6.8 | 80 | 10 | 13 | 53.3 | 8 | 15 | 1.9 | 5 | 0 | — | 89 | 4 |
| 1960 | OAK | 14 | 1 | 1–0 | 87 | 187 | 46.5 | 1,003 | 5.4 | 49 | 5 | 11 | 47.6 | 21 | 131 | 6.2 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 106 | 3 |
| 1961 | BOS | 14 | 8 | 6–2 | 104 | 198 | 52.5 | 1,314 | 6.6 | 53 | 13 | 9 | 76.5 | 38 | 183 | 4.8 | 24 | 4 | 15 | 118 | 2 |
| 1962 | BOS | 10 | 10 | 6–3–1 | 140 | 253 | 55.3 | 1,988 | 7.9 | 67 | 18 | 8 | 91.5 | 28 | 169 | 6.0 | 33 | 2 | 10 | 68 | 6 |
| 1963 | BOS | 14 | 13 | 7–5–1 | 153 | 337 | 45.4 | 2,345 | 7.0 | 77 | 13 | 24 | 52.1 | 36 | 126 | 3.5 | 19 | 5 | 26 | 200 | 7 |
| 1964 | BOS | 14 | 14 | 10–3–1 | 228 | 473 | 48.2 | 3,465 | 7.3 | 80 | 31 | 27 | 70.8 | 34 | 168 | 4.9 | 32 | 2 | 27 | 279 | 7 |
| 1965 | BOS | 14 | 13 | 4–8–1 | 173 | 426 | 40.6 | 2,597 | 6.1 | 73 | 18 | 26 | 50.0 | 50 | 200 | 4.0 | 17 | 0 | 35 | 334 | 8 |
| 1966 | BOS | 14 | 14 | 8–4–2 | 181 | 382 | 47.4 | 2,721 | 7.1 | 63 | 20 | 20 | 66.9 | 28 | 42 | 1.5 | 17 | 1 | 22 | 189 | 8 |
| 1967 | BOS | 14 | 11 | 3–7–1 | 161 | 344 | 46.8 | 2,317 | 6.7 | 79 | 19 | 24 | 58.5 | 14 | 61 | 4.4 | 18 | 0 | 29 | 250 | 4 |
| 1968 | NYJ | 14 | 0 | — | 29 | 55 | 52.7 | 401 | 7.3 | 47 | 5 | 2 | 91.6 | 7 | −2 | −0.3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 3 |
| 1969 | NYJ | 14 | 0 | — | 14 | 24 | 58.3 | 138 | 5.8 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 85.1 | 3 | 4 | 1.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 189 | 101 | 49–45–7 | 1,552 | 3,330 | 46.6 | 22,681 | 6.8 | 90 | 178 | 220 | 59.6 | 383 | 1,522 | 4.0 | 33 | 23 | 178 | 2,132 | 71 | |
Postseason
| Year | Team | Games | Passing | Rushing | Sacked | Fum | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | Lng | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Y/A | Lng | TD | Sck | SckY | |||
| 1963 | BOS | 2 | 2 | 1–1 | 28 | 64 | 43.8 | 489 | 7.6 | 59 | 2 | 2 | 67.8 | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 50 | 1 |
| 1968 | NYJ | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 4 | 2 | 1–1 | 28 | 65 | 43.1 | 489 | 7.5 | 59 | 2 | 2 | 66.8 | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 50 | 1 | |
Coaching career
In 1974, Parilli became the head coach of the New York Stars of the World Football League; after going bankrupt, the franchise moved to Charlotte mid-season. The next year, he was tabbed as coach of the WFL's Chicago Winds, and briefly seemed to have a chance to coach his old teammate, Joe Namath. But Namath turned Chicago down, and Parilli was replaced in late July after only two pre-season games. (The Winds would play only five regular-season contests before folding, and the rest of the WFL would collapse a few months later.) Parilli would later coach in the Arena Football League, helming the New England Steamrollers, Denver Dynamite, Charlotte Rage, Las Vegas Sting, Anaheim Piranhas and Florida Bobcats.[6]
Death
Parilli died on July 15, 2017, in Parker, Colorado of multiple myeloma at the age of 87.[7]
Honors
Parilli was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.[8] On November 15, 2014, he was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.[9]
See also
References
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