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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sam_DeLuca_1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sam_DeLuca_1961.jpg/220px-Sam_DeLuca_1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Sam_DeLuca_1961.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="363" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">No. 65</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Position:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guard_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (American football)">Guard</a>/<a href="/wiki/Offensive_tackle" class="mw-redirect" title="Offensive tackle">Tackle</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Born:</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1936-05-02</span>)</span>May 2, 1936<br /><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York">Brooklyn, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Died:</th><td class="infobox-data">September 13, 2011<span style="display:none">(2011-09-13)</span> (aged 75)<br /><a href="/wiki/Pelham,_New_York" title="Pelham, New York">Pelham, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">College:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Gamecocks_football" title="South Carolina Gamecocks football">South Carolina</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">NFL draft:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1957_NFL_draft" title="1957 NFL draft">1957</a> / round: 2 / pick: 23</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career history <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li>Toronto Argonauts (1957-59)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers</a> (1960–1961, 1963)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a> (1964–1966)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" 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Coast Conference">ACC</a> (<a href="/wiki/1956_All-Atlantic_Coast_Conference_football_team" title="1956 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team">1956</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career NFL statistics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width:50%;">Games played:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:3px;">81</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="padding-left:3px;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DeLuSa20.htm">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Reference" title="Pro Football Reference">Pro Football Reference</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Saverio Frank</b> "<b>Sam</b>" <b>DeLuca</b> (May 2, 1936 – September 13, 2011) was an American <a href="/wiki/Professional_Football" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional Football">Professional Football</a> <a href="/wiki/Offensive_lineman" class="mw-redirect" title="Offensive lineman">offensive lineman</a> in the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> (AFL) and later a radio and television football coverage broadcaster. He played six seasons, three for the <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers</a> and three for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a>. He was a member of the 1969 New York Jet Championship season on IR. After football, he had a long career in sports broadcasting. He was the <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> on the Jets’ radio broadcasts on <a href="/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a> and then <a href="/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a> before working NFL telecasts for <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NBC Sports</a> and on the Jets’ pre-season games in the 1970s and 1980s. He went to <a href="/wiki/Lafayette_High_School_(New_York_City)" title="Lafayette High School (New York City)">Lafayette High School</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>) with <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_King" title="Larry King">Larry King</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fred_Wilpon" title="Fred Wilpon">Fred Wilpon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-deslotniknyt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deslotniknyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playing_career">Playing career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_DeLuca&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Playing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DeLuca was a three-year <a href="/wiki/Letterman_(sports)" title="Letterman (sports)">letterman</a> in football at the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Gamecocks_football" title="South Carolina Gamecocks football">University of South Carolina</a> from 1954 through 1956. As a starting <a href="/wiki/Tackle_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tackle (American football)">offensive tackle</a>, he played for <a href="/wiki/Head_coach" title="Head coach">head coaches</a> <a href="/wiki/Rex_Enright" title="Rex Enright">Rex Enright</a> in his first two seasons and <a href="/wiki/Warren_Giese" title="Warren Giese">Warren Giese</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Senior_(education)" title="Senior (education)">senior</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gogamecocks_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gogamecocks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DeLuca graduated with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">Bachelor's degree</a> in <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Education</a> in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-sbenjaminwabc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sbenjaminwabc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Gamecocks" title="South Carolina Gamecocks">University of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame</a> in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-gogamecocks_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gogamecocks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also honored by the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Athletic_Hall_of_Fame" title="South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame">South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>DeLuca was selected in the second round (23rd overall) by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1957_NFL_draft" title="1957 NFL draft">1957 National Football League (NFL) draft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gogamecocks_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gogamecocks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He signed with the Giants for US$7,000 a year with a $500 <a href="/wiki/Signing_bonus" title="Signing bonus">bonus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sbenjaminwabc_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sbenjaminwabc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was to have succeeded starting offensive lineman <a href="/wiki/Bill_Austin_(American_football,_born_1928)" title="Bill Austin (American football, born 1928)">Bill Austin</a>, who was strongly considering retirement at the time. When Austin decided to play one more year,<sup id="cite_ref-deslotniknyt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deslotniknyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DeLuca was sent to the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">Canadian Football League</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Argonauts" title="Toronto Argonauts">Toronto Argonauts</a>, where he spent three seasons from 1957 through 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Broadcasting_career">Broadcasting career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_DeLuca&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Broadcasting career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DeLuca's first regular sportscasting assignment was hosting the pre- and postgame shows for <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> games on <a href="/wiki/WPLJ" title="WPLJ">WABC-FM</a> in 1968 and 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-mrsourapple_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mrsourapple-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Phil_Pepe" title="Phil Pepe">Phil Pepe</a>, then a <a href="/wiki/Sports_journalism" title="Sports journalism">baseball writer</a> for the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_News_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)">Daily News</a></i> who had graduated a year ahead of DeLuca at Lafayette High School, helped him prepare for the assignment.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_DeLuca&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DeLuca died at age 75 of <a href="/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer" title="Pancreatic cancer">pancreatic cancer</a> at his home in <a href="/wiki/Pelham,_New_York" title="Pelham, New York">Pelham, New York</a> on September 13, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-deslotniknyt_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deslotniknyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_DeLuca&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_Football_League_players" title="List of American Football League players">List of American Football League players</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_DeLuca&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-deslotniknyt-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-deslotniknyt_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-deslotniknyt_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-deslotniknyt_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/sports/football/sam-deluca-a-former-jet-and-broadcaster-is-dead-at-75.html?hpw">Slotnik, Daniel E. "Sam DeLuca, a Former Jet and Broadcaster, Is Dead at 75," <i>The New York Times</i>, Friday, September 16, 2011.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gogamecocks-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gogamecocks_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gogamecocks_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gogamecocks_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gamecocksonline.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/11-scar-media-guide.html">University of South Carolina 2011 Football Media Guide.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sbenjaminwabc-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sbenjaminwabc_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sbenjaminwabc_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://musicradio77.com/Delucaprofile.html">Benjamin, Scott. "Profile of Sam DeLuca," Musicradio77.com.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://southcarolinaathletichalloffame.org/">Honorees and Inductees – South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/sports/article/971024--former-cfl-and-afl-lineman-deluca-dead-at-75">"Former CFL and AFL lineman DeLuca dead at 75," <i>The Canadian Press</i>, Friday, September 16, 2011.</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged November 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mrsourapple-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mrsourapple_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/2011/09/14/2011-09-14_exjet__broadcasting_great_deluca_dies_at_75.html">Madden, Bill. "Sam DeLuca, Jets OL and teammate of Joe Namath turned broadcaster, dead of cancer at age 75," <i>Daily News</i> (New York City), Thursday, September 15, 2011.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://musicradio77.com/Deluca-Mets.html">Benjamin, Scott. 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