Roman Gabriel
- Category : 1940-births
- Type : MEG
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 3
Biography
American football quarterback who played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams (1962-1972) and Philadelphia Eagles (1973-1977) in the National Football League.
The son of a Filipino immigrant, he was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early '70s.
Gabriel attended and played high school football at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. He went on to star for the North Carolina State football team.
Gabriel had a brief career in movies, playing a prison guard in Otto Preminger's 1968 spoof Skidoo and a Native American named "Blue Boy" in the 1969 John Wayne and Rock Hudson film, The Undefeated.
He was married three times, and had five children.