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Every quarterback who has played in a Super Bowl game

Every quarterback who has played in a Super Bowl game

 

 

Every quarterback who has played in a Super Bowl game

We are on to Super Bowl LIV. How many quarterbacks have played in the championship game thus far and who has fared best?

The Super Bowl is upon us once again. America’s biggest single sporting day will feature the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers as Patrick Mahomes and Jimmy Garoppolo join the quarterbacks to play on the biggest stage.

I: Packers 35, Chiefs 10

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Bart Starr led the Packers to victory and was replaced late in the game by Zeke Bratkowski. Starr went 16-of-23 for 250 yards with a pair of TDs. Bratkowski’s only pass was an incompletion. On the Chiefs’ side, Len Dawson was 16-of-27 for 211 yards with a TD and a pick. Pete Beathard threw five passes with one completion for 17 yards.

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NFL playoffs: Ranking all 53 Super Bowl MVPs

Tom Brady, Steve Young, Joe Montana, Larry Csonka. Where do the superstars’ MVP performances in the Super Bowl rank?

The Super Bowl MVP is a pinnacle for a player. Each year someone earns the award. There have been great efforts and some that were merely right spot, right time. A look at how they all stack up.

53. Dexter Jackson (XXXVII)

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Dexter Jackson had a pair of picks for 34 return yards in earning honors. The DB didn’t have the most return yards of interceptions on his team as Dwight Smith had 94 and a pair of Pick-Sixes. Meanwhile, Derrick Brooks also had a Pick-Six but Jackson was given the award.

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NFL Draft 2016: The 44 players somehow chosen before Derrick Henry

NFL Draft 2016: The 44 players somehow chosen before Derrick Henry

 

 

NFL Draft 2016: The 44 players somehow chosen before Derrick Henry?

Derrick Henry won the Heisman Trophy at Alabama. That did not convince NFL teams, which saw him go 45th in the 2016 draft.

Derrick Henry has led the Tennessee Titans to the AFC Championship Game Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs. He has become one of the top running backs in the league with speed and power. Somehow, despite winning the Heisman at Alabama he slipped to 45th in the 2016 NFL Draft. Here’s a look at those drafted before him.

44. Oakland: Jihad Ward

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Jihad Ward has already been with three teams since being drafted by Oakland in 2016.

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Drew Pearson should have been named to Pro Football Hall of Fame

Former Dallas Cowboy great Drew Pearson was snubbed by the Pro Football HOF. The wideout belongs in Canton.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened its doors to a massive class Tuesday. The building in Canton is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the NFL and  announced of 13 more members of Centennial Slate for the Class of 2020 to go along with former Steelers coach Bill Cowher and former Cowboys and Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson. The names can be found here.

“This was the most thorough vetting of candidates in the Hall’s history and it needed to be. Our charge was to scour 100 years of professional football and find the most deserving candidates who have slipped through the cracks,”  veteran Hall of Fame Selector Rick Gosselin said on the PFHOF site. “All 38 finalists for the Centennial Slate were Hall of Fame worthy but we could only choose 15. I am proud to be a part of this process that honors these men who shaped the NFL in its first century.”

One person who would disagree — vehemently — and has slipped through the cracks, again, is former Cowboys wideout Drew Pearson. He was crushed.

“This hurts. They broke my heart. They broke my heart.” Pearson said. “And they did it like this. They strung it out like this.”

A player in the class who can be compared to Pearson is a player he faced numerous times as a rival, Harold Carmichael of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Carmichael was a four-time Pro Bowler, who led the NFL in receiving and yardage in 1973. He was on the 1970s All-Decade team and finished his career with 590 catches for 8,985 yards and 79 touchdowns. Carmichael also played in seven playoff games with 29 grabs and six TDs. He played 14 seasons, finishing his career as a Cowboy.

Pearson, meanwhile, played 11 seasons, all with Dallas. He had 489 catches for 7,822 yards with 48 TDs. Pearson was also on the All-Decade team for the ’70s, was a three-time Pro Bowler and was part of the Super Bowl XII champs, scoring a TD in the game. Pearson played in 22 playoff games with 68 catches for 1,131 yards and eight TDs.

Carmichael played on Eagles teams that were subpar for much of the early part of his NFL career while Pearson delivered on the biggest stages, over and over.

Pearson caught the Hail Mary reception from Roger Staubach that sealed the victory over the Vikings in a 1975 playoff game, one of the most famous plays in NFL history. He also caught the game-sealing touchdown in 1973 playoff game against the Los Angeles Rams and the game-winning touchdown pass from reserve quarterback Clint Longley in the 1974 Thanksgiving game against the Washington Redskins. All three of those plays were named among the Top 75 plays in NFL history by NFL Films in 1994. Pearson figured prominently in a fourth play on that list, throwing the final block to clear Tony Dorsett’s path to the end zone on his 99-yard touchdown run in 1983. In addition in the 1980 playoff game at Atlanta, Pearson’s clutch receptions helped win that game in a comeback by the Cowboys.

That’s impressive. And it is easy to understand how disappointed he was not to be named to Canton. While Carmichael played longer — and is deserving — Pearson’s body of work is every bit as Hall of Fame worthy. His years and stats may have been lesser but the historic plays he was part of have to count for something.

You can’t please everyone when it comes to the any Hall of Fame. Snubbing Drew Pearson feels like one the voters fumbled. Badly.

The ugliest moments in sports history

Myles Garrett of the Browns hit the Steelers Mason Rudolph in the head with a helmet in an awful scene Thursday.

The rivalry between the Pittsburgh and Cleveland turned beyond ugly and brutal in the fourth quarter Thursday when Browns defensive lineman Myles Garrett swung and hit Mason Rudolph in the head with the quarterback’s helmet in the final seconds.

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Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield was forceful in his comments about the melee with Erin Andrews after the game.

This joins some of the ugliest moments in the history of sports.

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