Mosiula Faasuka Tatupu was an American professional football player who was a running back for 14 seasons in the National Football League.
12 Facts About Mosi Tatupu
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Mosi Tatupu played college football at the University of Southern California.
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Mosi Tatupu played in the NFL as a running back and on special teams with New England Patriots from 1978 to 1990 and the Los Angeles Rams in 1991.
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Mosi Tatupu became a football coach after his playing career.
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Mosi Tatupu rushed the ball 612 times for 2,415 yards and 18 touchdowns; in the 1983 season he led the league with 5.5 rushing yards per attempt.
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Mosi Tatupu caught 96 passes for 843 yards and two touchdowns for his career.
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In 1987 against the Los Angeles Raiders, Mosi Tatupu threw a 15-yard touchdown to Tony Collins.
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Mosi Tatupu had seven kick returns for 56 yards in his career.
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Mosi Tatupu was the running backs coach at Curry College, an NCAA Division III school in Milton, Massachusetts, from 2002 to 2007, serving under head coach Steve Nelson, a former teammate of Mosi Tatupu on the Patriots.
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Mosi Tatupu is one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with this disease, which is caused by repeated hits to the head.
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Mosi Tatupu's nephew, Joe Tuipala, was an NFL linebacker from 1999 to 2005.
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One of the most popular players to play for the New England Patriots, Tatupu had his own section of fans at Foxboro Stadium, "Mosi's Mooses," who all adorned moose heads and chanted his name throughout the game.