Jay Fiedler
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | December 29, 1971 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Oceanside, New York | ||||||||
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| High school: | Oceanside (NY) | ||||||||
| College: | Dartmouth | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1994 | ||||||||
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| TD–INT: | 69–66 |
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| Yards: | 11,844 |
| QB Rating: | 77.1 |
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Jay Brian Fiedler (born December 29, 1971) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League.
Fiedler was born to a Jewish family on Long Island in Oceanside, New York. He is a distant relative of Arthur Fiedler, the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Fiedler attended Oceanside High School in Oceanside, New York, and won varsity letters as a quarterback in football, a point guard in basketball, and as a decathlete in track and field.
He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. In football, Fiedler set school records for touchdown passes (58), passing yards (6,684) and total offense (7,249 yards).
Fiedler was named Co-Offensive Player of the Game in the 1994 East-West Shrine Game. He received a Scholar-Athlete Award from the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame, the Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award for sportsmanship, and received his degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was named the MVP for the 1994 Ivy Bowl in Japan.
Fiedler had stints with the Philadelphia Eagles (1994–95), Minnesota Vikings (1998), and Jacksonville Jaguars (1999) before finding steady work with the Dolphins (2000–04) beginning in 2000. In between his time with the Eagles and Vikings, Fiedler served as a receivers coach at Hofstra University in 1997 before being signed as a free agent by Minnesota in 1998.
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