JOE GERMAINE

'Joseph Berton Germaine' (born August 11, 1975 in Denver, Colorado) is a professional American football quarterback, currently playing with Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League. Germaine played college football at Ohio State and had a brief stint in the NFL.

Contents

High school years

College career

Career passing statistics

Professional career

External links

High school years

Germaine attended Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona where he was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball.

College career

Germaine transferred to the Ohio State University, from Scottsdale Community College in Arizona in 1996. In 1996 and 1997, Germaine was the backup to starting quarterback Stanley Jackson. Germaine’s finest moment in his years as a backup came at the 1997 Rose Bowl, the last game of the 1996 season. He led the Buckeyes in a 65-yard drive in 12 plays in the final 1:40 for the winning touchdown, a 5-yard touchdown pass to David Boston with 19 seconds left. Germaine passed for 131 yards in the game and was named the game’s MVP.
In his senior year, Germaine finally became the starter, as well as a team co-captain. That year he set 11 school records, throwing for 3,330 yards and 25 touchdowns. He was the Chicago Tribune Silver Football Award winner as the Big Ten Conference Most Valuable Player that year. Germaine threw for 6,370 yards and 86 touchdowns in three seasons.
Germaine was selected to the Ohio State Football All-Century Team in 2000.

Career passing statistics

Year	Yards	Att.	Comp.
1996	1,193	147	80
1997	1,847	210	129
1998	3,330	384	230

Professional career

Germaine was selected in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. The St. Louis starter, Kurt Warner, took the Rams to Super Bowl XXXIV. Germaine won a Super Bowl ring as a backup to Warner in 1999. Germaine appeared in only three games, completing nine passes, and was cut at the end of the season. He also appeared in three games with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2001.
In 2004 Germaine became a quarterback for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League. There he was a back-up to Sherdrick Bonner who is widely considered to be one of the best quarterbacks in AFL history. After two years and six starts with the Rattlers, Germaine joined the expansion Utah Blaze in 2006. He started the first nine games of Utah's inaugural season, passing for 2,330 yards and 41 touchdowns while completing 67.4 percent of his passes. His season was cut short by an injury, but he returned in 2007 as full-time starting quarterback. He became the first player in AFL history to pass for over 5,000 yards in a season. He finished with 5,005 yards, shattering the record of 4,841 yards set by San Jose's Mark Grieb in 2006.

External links

★ Ohio State Athletics Archives: Joe Germaine