Gino Torretta
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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Pinole, California, U.S. | August 10, 1970||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Pinole Valley | ||||||||||||
College: | Miami (FL) (1989–1992) | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1993 / Round: 7 / Pick: 192 | ||||||||||||
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Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970) is an American former
Early years
Torretta was born in Pinole, California. He graduated from Pinole Valley High School, where he was a standout high school football quarterback for the Pinole Spartans.
College career
Torretta accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Miami, where he played for the Miami Hurricanes football team from 1989 to 1992.
1989 and 1990 seasons
As a quarterback for the Hurricanes, Torretta spent his first two seasons mostly on the bench behind then starting quarterback
Sebastian the Ibis incident
Prior to an October 28, 1989 game against long-standing rival Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis was tackled by a group of police officers for attempting to put out Osceola and Renegade's flaming spear. Sebastian was wearing a fireman’s helmet and yellow raincoat and holding a fire extinguisher. When a police officer attempted to grab the fire extinguisher, the officer was sprayed in the chest. Sebastian was handcuffed by four officers and detained but ultimately released. Torretta, who started that game for Miami, later told ESPN, "Even if we weren't bad boys, it added to the mystique that, 'Man, look, even their mascot's getting arrested.'"[2]
1991 season
In his first year as a starter, Torretta garnered further attention by stealing the show in a nationally televised 1991 game versus the Houston Cougars and their Heisman-frontrunning quarterback, David Klingler. As Miami's defense stymied Houston's run-and-shoot offense with relentless blitzing, Torretta put on the performance that many expected out of Klingler en route to a 40–10 victory; Klingler's lone touchdown pass in the game came with three seconds left in the fourth quarter against Miami's third-string defense, long after the game was decided. Torretta went on to lead Miami to a fourth-quarter comeback win on the road versus #1 Florida State and ultimately to an undefeated season and a co-national championship.
1992 season
Torretta passed for more than 3,000 yards his senior year in 1992 on his way to winning the
College statistics
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Season | Team | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | TD | Int | |||
1989 | Miami | 101 | 177 | 57.1 | 1,325 | 8 | 8 | |||
1990 | Miami | 21 | 41 | 51.2 | 210 | 0 | 1 | |||
1991 | Miami | 205 | 371 | 55.3 | 3,095 | 20 | 8 | |||
1992 | Miami | 228 | 402 | 56.7 | 3,060 | 19 | 7 |
NFL career
1993–1994
Despite his collegiate-level success, Torretta was not regarded as a high-level NFL prospect; his NFL career was fairly unremarkable. He was not selected until the Minnesota Vikings took him in the seventh round in the 1993 NFL Draft and then did not play him at all that year.[3] In 1994, Torretta was on the Vikings' roster, and then was picked up by the Detroit Lions. As was the case in 1993, he failed to play at all in 1994, serving the entire season in a backup role with the Lions.
1995–1999
In 1995, Torretta moved to
In 1997, Torretta was on the roster for Seattle and later the Indianapolis Colts but again did not play. After a brief stint with Kansas City in 1999, he retired from the NFL.
Post-NFL career
Torretta followed his NFL career with a position at Wachovia Securities as a senior financial advisor. He is chairman and CEO of Touchdown Radio, broadcasting an NCAA game of the week on national radio. He is also an NCAA football expert on Sirius XM channel 91, College Sports Nation.
Torretta is vice president for GAMCO Asset Management, working with institutional clients nationwide and working out of the firm's Palm Beach office.
References
- ^ "Brown, Torretta in new Hall class". ESPN.com. April 30, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
- ^ "The true story of Sebastian the Ibis, a fire extinguisher and a near arrest". October 30, 2019.
- ^ "1993 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
External links
- Gino Torretta on Twitter
- Gino Torretta at the College Football Hall of Fame
- Gino Torretta at Heisman.com
- Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference