Alphonse Alan Dotson is a former American football

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 defensive tackle who played college football

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 at Grambling State

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, where he was All-American

1964 College Football All-America Team

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 in 1964.

He was drafted

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 by the National Football League

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's Green Bay Packers

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 in the 2nd round (24th overall) of the 1965 NFL Draft

1965 NFL Draft

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 but signed with the American Football League

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's Kansas City Chiefs

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 and played a year. In 1966 he played for the AFL's Miami Dolphins

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. From 1967-1970 he played for the AFL's Oakland Raiders

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-Early years :A few months after the first AFL draft in 1959, the owners of the yet-unnamed Minneapolis franchise accepted an offer to join the established National Football League as an expansion team in 1961, sending the AFL scrambling for a replacement. At the time, Oakland seemed an unlikely...

, mostly as a backup as he recorded only 4 career starts

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. The Raiders defensive line of that era was Ike Lassiter

Ike Lassiter

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, Ben Davidson

Ben Davidson

Benjamin Earl Davidson is a former collegiate and professional American football player between 1961 and 1972, most notably in the American Football League with the Oakland Raiders from 1964 through 1969, and for the NFL Raiders from 1970 through 1972. He had also played in the NFL for the league...

, Tom Keating

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, and Dan Birdwell

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, a group who set the NFL sack

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 record (broken in 1984 by the Chicago Bears

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), so Dotson did not get a lot of playing time, although he played in most of the games while with the Raiders.

His son is Santana Dotson

Santana Dotson

Santana N. Dotson was an American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was a part of Houston's Yates High School football team when it won the 1985 5A state championship. While at Baylor, Dotson was voted All-American in 1991...

, himself a former All-American

1992 College Football All-America Team

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 and also the 1993 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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 and played in two Super Bowl

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s with the Green Bay Packers

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. He was a Super Bowl champion winning Super Bowl XXXI

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 with the Packers.

When his son, Santana, had become a free agent

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, Alphonse acted as his son's agent used his commission on the deal to purchase 83 acres (335,889.4 m²) which includes grapevines that covered 1/3 of the land. So now, Dotson is now a grape grower at Certenberg Vineyards in Texas. He also is the president of the Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association.

Alphonse also has a nephew playing college football at the University of Oklahoma

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—Alonzo Dotson, a defensive end

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.