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Kyle Rote Sr. (October 27, 1928–August 15, 2002) was an American football player and sports announcer.

The New York Giants won their third NFL Championship in 1956. The year marked their first year playing their home games at Yankee Stadium, and the Giants won the Eastern Division with an 8-3-1 record. In the NFL Championship Game on an icy field against the Chicago Bears, the Giants wore sneakers as they had 22 years previous. They dominated the Bears winning the championship by a score of 47-7. The 1956 Giants featured a number of future Hall of Fame players, including Frank Gifford, Alex Webster,Sam Huff and Roosevelt Brown. Equally notable, the team featured as its coordinators future Hall of Fame head coaches Tom Landry (defense) and Vince Lombardi (offense). Combined, both coaches would win 7 NFL championships. Not least of all, those Giants featured Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote, Thomas Conlin, and Pat Summerall, who would go on to highly successful second careers as football announcers.

Rote's son, Kyle Rote, Jr., was one of the first notable soccer stars from the United States, and the winner of the first Superstars made-for-television sports competition.

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