John Dockery
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Position: | Cornerback | ||||||||||||
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Born: | (1944-09-06) September 6, 1944 (age 79) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Brooklyn Prep (NY) | ||||||||||||
College: | Harvard | ||||||||||||
Undrafted: | 1966 | ||||||||||||
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John Dockery (September 6, 1944) is an American sportscaster and former American football defensive back who played for the New York Jets and later the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1968 to 1973. He graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory a Jesuit High School where he lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jets out of Harvard. He spent the last two years of his playing career with the Steelers.[1]
In 1965, he played collegiate summer baseball for the now defunct Sagamore Clouters of the Cape Cod Baseball League. A first-baseman, Dockery played alongside future major league manager Bob Schaefer under Clouters' manager Lou Lamoriello, who skippered the team to the 1965 league title.[2]
Following his retirement, Dockery went on to co-host Sports Extra on WNYW Channel 5 in New York City with Bill Mazer. He also served as a color analyst for College Football on ABC and NFL on CBS telecasts as well as a sideline reporter for College Football on CBS and Notre Dame Football on NBC.
Dockery served as a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football broadcasts on Westwood One radio from 1999 to 2007. Prior to that, he served as analyst for the network's Sunday Night Football radiocasts, as well as sideline reporter for other games.
Dockery continues to serve the game of football by co-organizing a youth football camp with Joe Namath that is in this 44th year. Additionally after his sports career Dockery founded Cambridge Corporate Services in 1998, a New York–based outsourcing service provider.
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- Full roster of all American Football League players 1960 - 1969
- Joe Namath / John Dockery Football Camp
- Cambridge Corporate Services
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- 11 Jim Turner
- 12 Joe Namath (MVP)
- 13 Don Maynard
- 15 Babe Parilli
- 22 Jim Hudson
- 23 Bill Rademacher
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- 29 Bake Turner
- 30 Mark Smolinski
- 31 Bill Mathis
- 32 Emerson Boozer
- 33 Curley Johnson
- 34 Lee White
- 35 Billy Joe
- 41 Matt Snell
- 42 Randy Beverly
- 43 John Dockery
- 45 Earl Christy
- 46 Bill Baird
- 47 Mike D'Amato
- 48 Cornell Gordon
- 50 Carl McAdams
- 51 Ralph Baker
- 52 John Schmitt
- 56 Paul Crane
- 60 Larry Grantham
- 61 Bob Talamini
- 62 Al Atkinson
- 63 John Neidert
- 66 Randy Rasmussen
- 67 Dave Herman
- 68 Michael Stromberg
- 70 Karl Henke
- 71 Sam Walton
- 72 Paul Rochester
- 74 Jeff Richardson
- 75 Winston Hill
- 80 John Elliott
- 81 Gerry Philbin
- 83 George Sauer
- 85 Steve Thompson
- 86 Verlon Biggs
- 87 Pete Lammons
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- Clive Rush
- Buddy Ryan
- Joe Spencer