Chet Parlavecchio

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Chet Parlavecchio
Personal information
Born: (1960-02-14) February 14, 1960 (age 64)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
High school: Seton Hall
College: Penn State
Position:
NFL draft: 1982  / Round: 6 / Pick: 152
Career history
As a player:
 * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As a coach:
Career NFL statistics
Games played:12

Chester Louis "Chet" Parlavecchio (born February 14, 1960) is an American football coach and former linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) who later became an assistant special teams coach and linebackers coach with the Tennessee Titans. He also served as a defensive assistant at Temple University and as a head coach for various high schools in his native New Jersey.

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He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1982 NFL Draft and later split the 1983 NFL season between the Packers and the St. Louis Cardinals. [1] He played college football at Penn State University. He graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. [2]

Coaching career

Parlavecchio was named assistant special teams coach for the Tennessee Titans on February 22, 2011, where he served under head coach Mike Munchak. [3]

Prior to his taking this position, Parlavecchio spent nearly three decades as a physical education teacher and high school football coach in his native New Jersey. He was hired by Bloomfield High School in 1987 to rejuvenate their football program then went on to coach at Irvington High School, Passaic Valley Regional High School, Clifton High School and Elizabeth High School before leaving coaching following the 2009 season. [2] He led each of those schools to at least one playoff appearance and won the North II, Group IV state championship with Elizabeth in 2006. [4]

Parlavecchio also coached in the college ranks for a season, serving as a linebacker coach for the Temple Owls football in 1993. [4]

After becoming the Titans’ linebackers coach in his second season, Parlavecchio was dismissed along with the rest of Munchak’s staff when the latter was fired. He would return to New Jersey and in 2015, he would return to Passaic Valley high school as its football coach. He would lead the school to one more playoff appearance in 2017, and would resign his position following the 2019 season.

Personal

Parlavecchio is married and has two adult children. His son, Chet Jr., has followed his father into coaching and is the head football coach at New Providence High School in New Providence, New Jersey.

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References

  1. Chet Parlavecchio NFL Football Statistics – Pro-Football-Reference.com
  2. 1 2 Lamberti, Mike. "Titans coach Parlavecchio and Belleville HS go way back", The Record (Bergen County) , September 1, 2011. Accepted September 1, 2011. "The caller was none other than Chet Parlavecchio, the former head football coach at Bloomfield, Irvington, Passaic Valley, Clifton and Elizabeth before taking on the assignment of a lifetime this season as the assistant special teams coach with the Tennessee Titans.... Chet Parlavecchio's first encounter with Belleville High School football is one of legend, to be perfectly honest. It occurred in November, 1977, Parlavecchio's senior year at Seton Hall Prep."
  3. "Titans Add To Coaching Staff". TitansOnline.com. February 22, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Lamberti, Mike. "Chet Parlavecchio, former Bloomfield football coach, named assistant special teams coach for NFL's Tennessee Titans", Bloomfield Life, February 25, 2011. Accessed March 24, 2012. "In 2006, he was back on the sideline at Elizabeth and found immediate success there, leading the Minutemen to a NJSIAA, North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 championship."