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QB Joe Germaine (Rose Bowl MVP, B1G OPOY, B1G MVP)

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Utah Blaze: Germaine signs four-year extension
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/29/2008

It appears that Joe Germaine will be the Utah Blaze's starting quarterback for a long, long time.

Germaine, the former Ohio State quarterback, has agreed to a four-year contract extension that will keep him in a Utah uniform through the 2012 season. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed and the agreement won't be official until it gets league approval, a Blaze spokesperson said Tuesday.

Germaine, Utah's starting quarterback in its first two seasons in the Arena Football League, finished the 2007 regular season by leading the AFL in completions (422) and passing yards (5,005) and was second in touchdown passes with 107.

His 5,005 passing yards broke the AFL record of 4,841 set by San Jose's Mark Grieb in 2007.
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Blaze: Blaze give Germaine extension
By Jay Drew
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/30/2008 02:57:24 AM MST

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Utah Blaze quarterback Joe Germaine will leave his home in the Arizona desert and all the Super Bowl hoopla in the Phoenix area later this week and head for snowy Utah to begin preparations for training camp, which starts next week.
Don't feel sorry for Germaine, however. He apparently likes this place.
Germaine, 32, has agreed to a four-year contract extension that will keep him in a Utah Blaze uniform through the 2012 season. Utah's starting quarterback the first two seasons of its existence was set to become a free agent at the end of the 2008 season.
"I really like the franchise and how the Garffs are doing things," he said. "I have really enjoyed my experience there the last two years. As hard as it is to be away from home in Arizona, it is really the only place where I want to play."

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Blaze: Blaze: Spotlight shines on Germaine
Star quarterback's record-setting 2007 got him a five-year deal
By Jay Drew
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 02/16/2008

Utah Blaze receiver Aaron Boone has a theory, which wouldn't seem like that big of a deal if it weren't coming from a player who catches passes for a living.
As Boone sees is, the secret to the Utah Blaze's record-setting offense the past two years was not Siaha Burley, the Arena Football League Offensive Player of the Year in 2007 who bolted for Arizona in the offseason.
"Siaha was a great player, don't get me wrong," Boone said. "But I think Joe Germaine made him even that much better. . . . When I look at our offense, I look at the guy who is throwing the ball. He's the one making the plays. That's who the team has put its focus on."
Sure enough, Utah rewarded Germaine just before training camp started with a five-year contract, the longest in AFL history. More than anything else, the contract signifies that, with the departure of Burley, this is Germaine's team.
"He's committed to the Blaze and we're committed to him," coach Danny White said. "I think it is a mutual thing. We want Joe to end his career here. That's the message we are trying to send."
Germaine, 32, is too humble and conservative to boast that he's now the sole face of the franchise -- outside of White, the former Dallas Cowboys star -- but clearly the pressure is on the one-time Ohio State quarterback to get the Blaze to the playoffs.
"We've got some guys that are familiar with the system and have the talent to get the job done," he said, downplaying his role as the team leader. "They've got big shoes to fill, but hopefully with these guys we have we can get the job done."
Germaine is coming off a spectacular season, having thrown for an AFL-record 5,005 yards and 107 touchdowns, second-most in the league. His 422 completions and 617 attempts last year were also AFL highs.
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No quarterback controversy
Above-average Joe
Quarterback Joe Germaine's AFL career stats:
Year Team Comp. Att. Int. Yards TDs Long
2004 Arizona 16 29 1 188 5 40
2005 Arizona 157 246 7 1,996 40 45
2006 Utah 184 273 5 2,330 41 42
2007 Utah 422** 617** 12 5,005* 107 45

* -- AFL record
** -- Led league
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No ordinary Joe: QB Germaine looks to Blaze frontier for Utah's AFL team
By Loren Jorgensen
Deseret Morning News
Published: Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008

The quarterback, no matter what the league or level, is always a focal point of a football team.
But now, more than ever, Joe Germaine is the man for the Utah Blaze.

"Joe has pretty much got to take this team on his back now and make all the right decisions," said Blaze coach and general manager Danny White.

No pressure there.

During the offseason, two-thirds of the Blaze's most recognizable trio of stars left the franchise, which is now entering its third year in the Arena Football League. Siaha Burley, the AFL's 2007 Offensive Player of the Year, signed as a free agent with his hometown Arizona Rattlers. And Hans Olsen, an outspoken BYU graduate who was a 2006 member of the AFL's All-Ironman Team, retired to concentrate on his budding sports talk radio career.

"Between Siaha and Hans, that was a lot of veteran leadership there," White said. "We'll miss them both."

But Germaine is back and with the Blaze to stay. The record-setting QB signed a five-year contract extension, the longest in AFL history, that is scheduled to keep him in a Blaze uniform through the 2012 season.

"He's committed to the Blaze and we're committed to him," White said. "It's a mutual thing. We want Joe to end his career here. That's the message we're trying to send to him. 'You're our guy, Joe. You're the one we want to lead this team for the next five years."
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Deseret Morning News | No ordinary Joe: QB Germaine looks to Blaze frontier for Utah's AFL team
 
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Germaine finds his pro niche
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Dennis Manoloff
Plain Dealer Reporter

Utah Blaze quarterback Joe Germaine plays ice-cold. He does not faze easily even when his coach puts him on the griddle in happy times.

In the off-season, Germaine signed a four- year extension that will keep him with the Blaze at least through 2012. Utah coach/ Gen eral Manager Danny White, while praising Germaine, was quoted in the local papers as saying, "Joe has pretty much got to put this team on his back now, and make all the right decisions."

Is that all?

White added that he would not hesitate to "change things up" if Germaine were to struggle in a game.

Germaine heard the words and remained calm, as usual.

"Quarterbacks, in general, have a lot on their plates," Germaine said last Wednesday by phone from Utah. "It's especially true in the arena game."

Asked if he feels extra pressure from White's assessment, Germaine said: "No, I really don't. I know I have a big job to do, and I accept the responsibility. At the same time, I have a lot of good players around me, and we all need to do our part to be successful as a team."

Germaine leads the Blaze into The Q on Sunday for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff against the Gladiators. The former Ohio State standout and 1997 Rose Bowl most outstanding player took note of the Gladiators' 61-49 victory over New York last Monday at The Q. The franchise's inaugural game in Cleveland unfolded in front of 17,000-plus.

"It looks like they've got a good thing going over there," Germaine said. "Cleveland is such a great football town. I know first-hand how Ohio fans, in general, are very loyal. The Gladiators should do really well."
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QB returns in a blaze of glory
Former Ohio State star Joe Germaine shattering records as Utah's passer

By George M. Thomas
Beacon Journal sportswriter

Published on Sunday, Mar 09, 2008

Joe Germaine is the type of guy who wants to look back on his football career and not have any regrets.

The resident of Chandler, Ariz., and former quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes returns to the state today as his team, the Utah Blaze, takes on the Cleveland Gladiators at 12:30 p.m. at Quicken Loans Arena.

Although Germaine didn't have the career in the National Football League that he wanted, he's shown that he possesses the skills to elevate his game on an alternate pro level.

''I had all the aspirations in the world to play in the NFL. I was able to do that. I was able to do that for four years,'' he said. ''I wish I was able to play there longer, but I'm very happy and honored to be able to play in this league.''

He spent time on the rosters of the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals and the St. Louis Rams' Super Bowl championship team that featured AFL refugee Kurt Warner at the helm.

Germaine has transferred that success to the AFL in a career that began with the Arizona Wranglers and now the Blaze, where he's personally set the league's record book on fire.

Last year, Germaine set the single-season passing record for the AFL with 5,005 yards passing. He also tossed 100 touchdowns and had 617 passing attempts. He led the league in completions with 422.

The AFL is a league that maximizes Germaine's talents as a passer. Buckeyes fans will recall that then-coach John Cooper often rotated the strong-armed Germaine with the more elusive Stanley Jackson.
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Ohio.com - QB returns in a blaze of glory

Germaine making the best of a restless situation
By Jason Lloyd
03/09/2008
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The worst part is not knowing why. And if you could transform a football into a dart like that, you'd wonder, too.


Before Troy Smith came along, Joe Germaine had a legitimate chance to win any debate as the most accurate quarterback in Ohio State history. He led the Buckeyes to a Rose Bowl victory and was named the game's MVP. He set 11 school records and was named to Ohio State's All-Century Team in 2000.

He was supposed to end OSU's drought of quarterback production in the NFL. Now, over a decade later, Germaine will lead the Utah Blaze into the Q today to face the Gladiators in an arena game. He's still in football, but this isn't the way it was supposed to go.

Germaine, though, has no answers for why he couldn't make it in the NFL. And that's the aggravating part.

''If I had the answer to that, I'd probably sleep a lot better,'' Germaine said. ''To be honest, I'm really disappointed that, for whatever reason, I just didn't get any opportunities.
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Utah Blaze: Germaine's nine TD passes not enough
Special to the Deseret News
Published: Sunday, April 13, 2008

LOS ANGELES ? Despite nine touchdown passes by Joe Germaine, the Utah Blaze came out on the wrong end of the score again, dropping their seventh game of the season Saturday night, this time a 79-62 decision to the Los Angeles Avengers.

Germaine threw for 362 yards, with J.J. McKelvey catching 11 balls for 171 yards and five touchdowns. All those numbers, however, were overshadowed by a disastrous stretch of missed opportunities and turnovers just prior to and after the half.
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Deseret News | Utah Blaze: Germaine's nine TD passes not enough
 
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Utah Blaze: Germaine is AFL Player of the Week
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 05/06/2008


Utah Blaze quarterback Joe Germaine is the Arena Football League Offensive Player of the Week, the league announced Tuesday.
Germaine, the former Ohio State star, completed 24 of 30 passes for eight touchdowns and ran for another score in Utah's 67-50 win over the Kansas City Brigade on Saturday, Utah's first win of the season.
"Joe has been a true leader on and off the field," Blaze coach Danny White said. "He has been everything that we expected him to be and is truly deserving of this recognition."
Germaine has completed 68.9 percent of his passes this season for a league-leading 3,148 yards and 64 touchdowns.
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Utah Blaze: Germaine is AFL Player of the Week - Salt Lake Tribune
 
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How he doesn't get a legit look with an NFL team, yet Kyle Boller and fucks like Chad "0-4" Henne are possible STARTERS is a complete mystery to me.

Not only was Joe a damn fine QB, he was tough as nails. Even though he looks...young...I'll never be more proud of a Buckeye in a loss as I was of Joe against FSU.

Congrats Joe.
 
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meh. He's better off in the AFL, IMO. He didn't have the arm strength to make it in the NFL and, with the exception of Maddox, all of the guys that you mentioned do. Coaches and GMs are still convinced that they can teach a guy to not be stupid, but they can't teach him arm strength.
 
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