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My Take
Flacco is my favorite kind of athlete: the one whose greatness gets argued about precisely because he never markets it. A six-foot-six frame, one of the strongest deep balls of his era, a first-round pick who delivered a championship run for Baltimore, and yet the conversation always circled back to whether he was elite. What I respect most is the second act: instead of coasting on past glory, he kept grinding as a journeyman deep into his late thirties, still slinging it for Cincinnati. That stubborn, unglamorous longevity says more about his character than any highlight reel ever could.
Overview
Joseph Vincent Flacco (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens before being selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2008 NFL draft.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joe Flacco
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョー・フラッコ
- Reading
- じょー・ふらっこ
- Born
- January 16, 1985 (age 41)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Ox
- Origin
- Audubon, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 198 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- American football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Audubon High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.