Tuineau alipate wiki

Tongan gridiron football player (1967–2021)

American football player

Tuineau A. Alipate (;^[1] August 21, 1967 – October 15, 2021) was a gridiron footballlinebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).

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After playing college football at Washington State University, Alipate played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL from 1989 to 1992. In 1989, he was part of the Roughriders team that won the 77th Grey Cup.

After being cut by the Roughriders, Alipate tried out for multiple NFL teams and received a practice squad position with the New York Jets. He went on to play for both the Jets and the Minnesota Vikings from 1994 to 1996, primarily on special teams.

He also had a short stint with the Green Bay Packers in 1995.

Early career

Alipate was born in Tonga and moved to the San Francisco Bay area when he was eight years old.^[1] He did not play football until he