The Oakland Raiders, though they’ve fallen on hard times recently, are one of the more successful franchises in National Football League history.  The Raiders have been known as a team that loves to stretch the field with their passing game.  Who are the top ten touchdown passers in Raiders history?

1.  Ken Stabler (1970-79) - 150 TDs
2.  Daryle Lamonica (1967-74) - 148 TDs
3.  Rich Gannon (1999-04) - 114 TDs
4.  Tom Flores (1960-66) - 92 TDs
5.  Jim Plunkett (1979-86) - 80 TDs
6.  Marc Wilson (1980-87) - 77 TDs
7.  Jeff Hostetler (1993-96) - 69 TDs
8.  Jay Schroeder (1988-92) - 66 TDs
9.  Kerry Collins (2004-05) - 41 TDs (tie)
9.  Cotton Davidson (1962-68) - 41 TDs (tie)

By now, everyone knows that the number one ranked college football team in the country was upset a couple of days ago. Oregon State University defeated the USC Trojans 33-31 in a huge stunner. Now the college football world is upside down with a few teams poised to try and make a move to be the next top ranked team.

An interesting fact regarding this game, it had been 41 years since Oregon State had defeated a team that was ranked number one overall. That team? The 1967 USC Trojans led by O.J. Simpson.

We recently received a great question from Brad in Massachusetts. He asked what franchise, of all the franchises that were part of the old American Football League (AFL), has gone on to experience the most success.

Success is a subjective term that means different things to different people. All of the following information is based on facts through the end of the 2007 NFL season.

Q. What original AFL team has won the most games in their history?
A. The Oakland Raiders. The Raiders have won an even 400 games since they came into the AFL in 1960. In second place in victories is the Kansas City Chiefs with 379 wins and right behind them is the Denver Broncos with 378 wins.

Q. What original AFL team has won the most championships?
A. The Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots have each won three league championships. The Raiders have defeated the Vikings, Eagles, and Redskins in their three Super Bowl victories while the Patriots have beaten the Rams, Panthers, and Eagles in their three Super Bowl victories.

So, it looks like the most successful of all of the former AFL franchises is the Oakland Raiders, with an honorable mention going to the New England Patriots.

A few facts about the least successful of all former AFL franchises:

-The Cincinnati Bengals have won the fewest games of all former AFL teams with just 268 wins. In their defense, the AFL started in 1960 but the Bengals’ first season in the league didn’t come until 1968.

-The teams from the AFL that have never won a Super Bowl in their franchise history include the Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers, and the Tennessee Titans (who began as the Houston OIlers).

The Giants are 3-0 to start of this young season. What is significant about that? They are only the 5th Super Bowl winning team to start the next season out at 3-0. That brings up a question, there have been a few repeat Super Bowl championships in the history of the NFL, how did those teams start out the second of their championship seasons after winning the Super Bowl in the previous year?

Super Bowl winning teams and how they started the next year when they repeated with another Super Bowl victory:

Green Bay Packers
The Packers won the first Super Bowl, and would’ve started the following season 3-0 if it hadn’t been for the fact that their first game of the year against the Detroit Lions ended in a 17-17 tie. The Packers would eventually get their record as high as 9-2-1 before losing their last two games of the regular season against the Rams and Steelers before going on to win their second straight Super Bowl.

Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins had won Super Bowl VII following the 1972 season, a season for which they are famous for going undefeated through both the regular season and post season. Many people don’t remember though that the Dolphins would march back to and win Super Bowl VII the next season too. But after going undefeated in 1972, how did they start out the 1973 season? The Dolphins started the year out with a victory over the 49ers before falling to the Raiders in the second game of the year. They would then go on to win their next ten games before losing the second to last game of the year against the Colts and finishing with a 12-2 record.

Pittsburgh Steelers
One of the best teams of the 1970s, the Pittsburgh Steelers would win Super Bowl IX following the 1974 season and then would follow that up with a Super Bowl X victory the very next season. How did that second season start out for them though? The 1975 Steelers would start their season out with a 37-0 blowout victory over the San Diego Chargers, they followed this up the very next week with a 30-21 loss to the Buffalo Bills. After that loss, they would run off 11 consecutive victories before losing their last game of the regular season by a score of 10-3 to the Los Angeles Rams, finishing the year at 12-2.

Pittsburgh Steelers
The Steelers finished out the 1970s with their second group of back-to-back Super Bowl victories having won Super Bowl XIII over the Cowboys following the 1978 season and Super Bowl XIV over the Rams following the 1979 season. How did their repeat victory season start out this time around? The Steelers would rattle off four straight victories before falling to the Eagles in week 5 of the season and then to the Bengals in week 7. They would finish the year as 12-4 before marching through the playoffs and defending their Super Bowl Championship.

San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers had won Super Bowl XXIII over the Bengals following the 1988 season. They would go on to win Super Bowl XXIV the next season by blowing out the Denver Broncos. How did that 1989 season go for the 49ers? The team would start the year out 3-0 before losing their first game of the year in a one point loss to the Los Angeles Rams. They wouldn’t lose again until week 11 when the Green Bay Packers beat them 21-17. They finished the year at 14-2 having won their last five games of the season.

Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys won Super Bowl XXVII and XXVIII following the 1992 and 1993 seasons respectively. Both victories were over the Buffalo Bills in what were the Bills’ third and fourth consecutive Super Bowl appearance. How did that 1993 season go for the Cowboys after having won the Super Bowl the previous year? It actually didn’t start out so well. The Cowboys opened up the season with a 35-16 loss to the Washington Redskins and followed it up with a 13-10 loss to the same Bills they had defeated in the previous Super Bowl. They would rebound, but as late as week 13 their record was still only 7-4 after back-to-back losses to the Falcons and the Dolphins. That would be the end of their losing though as they finished strong with a 12-4 record.

Denver Broncos
The Broncos were victorious over the previous season’s champion, the Green Bay Packers, in Super Bowl XXXII. They then would win it again in John Elway’s last season in the league when they won Super Bowl XXXIII following the 1998 season. How did that second championship season go for the Broncos though? Coming off their Super Bowl victory, the Broncos showed no signs of slowing down by mowing through the league and going 13-0, in fact in those thirteen games only two of them were decided by less than ten points. They then lost back-to-back games to the Giants and Dolphins before finishing the season with a victory over the Seahawks and an overall record of 14-2.

New England Patriots
The Patriots and their young quarterback Tom Brady won Super Bowl XXXVIII following the 2003 season by defeating the Carolina Panthers. They backed that up following the 2004 season with a Super Bowl XXXIX victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. How did that 2004 season go for them, seeing as they were defending their NFL title? Fairly well actually as the Patriots were 6-0 to start the year off before losing to the Steelers in week 8. They would then rack up another six straight victories before losing a one point contest to the Dolphins. They capped off the season with two straight victories, going 14-2, before marching through the playoffs to secure their back-to-back Super Bowl win.

Will the Giants go on to win Super Bowl XLIII this year? It is impossible to know, but their 3-0 start has got to be encouraging to their players, coaches, and fans.

Trent Green has been named the starting quarterback of the St. Louis Rams. Why does that sound familiar?

The year was 1999 and head coach Dick Vermeil had been having trouble getting the Rams to win games after he had spent 15 years in the broadcaster booth. In 1997, the Rams had posted a record of 5-11 and had followed it up with an even worse record of 4-12 the next year in 1998. After tiring of their quarterback situation which had consisted of starter Tony Banks and backups Mark Rypien and Steve Bono respectively during the previous two seasons, the Rams had signed one of the exciting up and coming young quarterbacks in the offseason when they inked free agent Trent Green to a four year contract.

Then it all came apart during preseason when Green went down to a knee injury. The team was devastated and was forced to turn to former third string quarterback Kurt Warner. The year progressed magically as Warner led the Rams to the playoffs and then a Super Bowl victory, being named MVP of the NFL and the Super Bowl along the way.

After coming back from the injury, Green would spend one more year with the Rams before signing with the Kansas City Chiefs who by then would be coached by none other than Dick Vermeil. Green put up some incredible numbers with the Chiefs, in fact passing for more yards from 2002-2004 than any other player playing during those seasons. He would eventually play six seasons with the Chiefs before moving on to play one season with the Miami Dolphins. That one season in Miami would be painful though when Green went down to another season ending injury.

Now Green finds himself back on the Rams roster, and thanks to disappointing performances from the offense in the first three games… he is now the starter. Maybe this time around will go better, it couldn’t go much worse.

One of the biggest stories in the NFL so far during this young season has been the constant speculation on whether or not Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders will be firing their young head coach, Lane Kiffin. Kiffin led the Raiders to a disappointing 4-12 record in his first year as head coach, but not much more was expected out of Oakland that year considering the overall lack of talent on the team. Monte Kiffin, Lane’s father, is a longtime NFL assistant coach who has spent time on the staffs of the Packers, Bills, Vikings, Jets, Saints, and Buccaneers. Lane Kiffin played quarterback at Fresno State University and from there moved straight into coaching. After reaching the position of offensive coordinator with the USC Trojans, the Raiders snatched Kiffin and named him as their head coach in 2007. Lane Kiffin’s name has been in the news a lot lately, but here are some things you may not know about the still head coach of the Oakland Raiders.

-Kiffin gave up his senior year of college football eligibility at Fresno State University to become the team’s quarterbacks coach.

-Lane Kiffin’s dad Monte served briefly as the North Carolina State head football coach, this was Monte Kiffin’s only head coaching position.

-Lane Kiffin graduated from Bloomington Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1994. In high school with him at the time were Lloyd Lee the current linebackers coach of the Chicago Bears and David Watson the current defensive line coach of the USC Trojans.

-At the time of his hiring in January of 2007, he became the youngest head coach in Oakland Raiders history (31 years old).

It remains to be seen how long Kiffin will remain coaching the Raiders, anything is possible when you consider that Al Davis is involved. But one thing is sure, becoming head coach of an NFL team at the age of 31 is truly quite an accomplishment.

The fact we have for you today centers around coaching and Super Bowl victories. The question is of all the NFL head coaches that have won a Super Bowl, who has the lowest win-loss percentage? To be a Super Bowl winning coach, a coach has to not only be exceptional at their job but they also need to be blessed with having a talented team.

Well, the answer to the question is Weeb Ewbank. Ewbank led the New York Jets to a Super Bowl victory in 1968 in the game made famous by Joe Namath and his prediction of victory. Ewbank coached the Jets for 11 seasons and Baltimore Colts for nine. His win-loss percentage over the course of his twenty year career was .502 as he put up a 130-129-7 record.

This one is so great that I wish I had thought of it myself. Here is a link to a post about the top ten strangest high school nicknames in the country. You need to check these out, some are just classic. My personal favorite is the Fluvanna County Flying Flucos.

Is your high school listed there?

The Dallas Cowboys are known around the NFL as “America’s Team”. They have had their ups and downs as a franchise, but overall have been one of the more successful teams in league history. The quarterback position of the Dallas Cowboys has always been a position that has drawn a lot of attention. That was true when the team began in the 1960s and it is true now. Let’s take a look at the quarterbacks of the Dallas Cowboys.

In The Beginning - The 1960s
The expansion 1960 Dallas Cowboys had brought in Eddie LeBaron, a seven year veteran from the Washington Redskins, as a way of adding some experience to their young team. Also on the roster at the birth of the Cowboys was “Dandy” Don Meredith and Don Heinrich who each started just one game during that first year. LeBaron was still the starting quarterback for the 1961, but by 1962 Meredith had taken over as the primary starting quarterback and LeBaron had made the transition to the backup role. When 1964 rolled around, it was Meredith’s team with LeBaron no longer being on the roster. The new backup quarterback was John Roach who had come over following a few years as a backup in Green Bay. In 1965, Meredith remained the starting quarterback, but two other quarterbacks started games that season, Craig Morton and Jerry Rhome. This combination remained until 1968 when Morton became the one and only primary backup to Meredith. By the end of the decade though Meredith had left the team, becoming a broadcaster with Monday Night Football a year later, and Morton had assumed the role of starter. There was a new second string quarterback on the Cowboys roster though and his name was Roger Staubach.

That Seventies Team - The 1970s
The 1970 Dallas Cowboys team would win the NFC Championship, losing to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V, with Craig Morton starting 11 games and Roger Staubach starting three. The writing was on the wall though and the next year the roles were reversed with Morton only starting four games while Staubach started ten games and led the team to its first Super Bowl victory. The 1972 Cowboys would see Morton return to his starting position, starting every game of the season, but would also see the Cowboys lose to the Redskins in the NFC Championship game ending their chance at defending their Super Bowl title. Dallas would make it to the conference championship game again in 1973, this time losing to the Minnesota Vikings and having Roger Staubach start every game on the schedule and Morton moved to the backup position again. Clint Longley would join the Cowboys as a rookie and backup in 1974 and by 1975 Craig Morton had moved on to the New York Giants. Longley would remain the backup during 1975 as Staubach again led the team to the Super Bowl, this time they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. 1976 would see Longley replaced in the backup role by young Danny White who was also the team’s punter as Staubach continued to be one of the more effective quarterbacks in the league. In 1977, Staubach would lead the Cowboys back to the Super Bowl and this time they would be victorious over the Denver Broncos, coincidentally the Broncos quarterback at this time was former Cowboy Craig Morton. In 1978, the Cowboys went back to the Super Bowl but were again beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers. 1979 was the last season that Danny White was the backup for Staubach as the Cowboy great would retire following that season.

The End Of An Era - The 1980s
With Roger Staubach gone, Danny White would move into the starting quarterback role and the Cowboys remained successful going to the NFC Championship Game on more than one occasion in the early 1980s, White’s backup the first couple of years in this new decade was Glenn Carano who in 1982 would be replaced by Gary Hogeboom. This configuration would remain constant for a couple of years, but by 1984 Hogeboom was seeing more time as the starter than White, having started ten games to White’s six. White reclaimed his starting position for the 1985 season and by 1986, Hogeboom was gone having moved on to become a part time starter with the Indianapolis Colts. 1986 saw Steve Pelleur come to the Cowboys and that year he actually started more games than longtime Cowboy Danny White. This would be reversed in 1987 when White would once again takeover the starting quarterback role as Pelleur went to the bench which now would also include Kevin Sweeney and Loren Snyder as backups. Steve Pelleur would be the starting quarterback when the 1988 season came around while Sweeney and White would serve as his backups. 1989 would see one of the most dramatic changes to the Cowboys when new ownership removed original head coach Tom Landry and replaced him with new head coach Jimmy Johnson. The Cowboys would go 1-15 that year as they bottomed out at the end of the decade, but the future looked bright with rookie quarterback Troy Aikman at the helm and highly touted Steve Walsh as the backup.

Birth Of A Dynasty - The 1990s
With a new head coach and a new starting quarterback, the Cowboys would rebuild themselves into one of the most dominant teams in NFL history. Emmitt Smith was added to the backfield and Michael Irvin and others were added so that Aikman would have quality players to throw the ball to. The Cowboys would focus on strengthening their offensive line and defense as well. That 1990 season would see the Cowboys go 7-9 with Aikman still at the helm and Walsh in a backup role along with Babe Laufenberg. 1991 would see the Cowboys go 11-5 and return to the playoffs, Walsh and Laufenberg were now gone and Steve Beuerlein would be Aikman’s primary backup and also get to start four games too. Though Beuerlein was still the backup the next year, 1992 would see Aikman start all 16 games and eventually lead the Cowboys to a 52-17 Super Bowl victory over the Buffalo Bills. The Cowboys would repeat as Super Bowl champions in 1993, again defeating the Bills for the championship with Aikman leading the way. Backing up Aikman that season was longtime Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar and newcomer Jason Garrett. 1994 saw the Cowboys come one game away from making it to the Super Bowl again, falling to the 49ers in the conference championship game, and while Jason Garrett remained on the team as one of Aikman’s backups, Kosar was gone and Rodney Peete was there. A third Super Bowl victory in the 1990s was added to the Cowboys mantle in 1995 when they defeated the Neil O’Donnell led Steelers in the big game. Garrett again remained there as Aikman’s backup, but this year longtime veteran Wade Wilson was added to the roster. This setup would remain the same as far as Cowboys quarterbacks go through 1996 and 1997, but by 1998 Wilson had been replaced with newcomer Mike Quinn while Jason Garrett would not only remain the primary backup but find himself in the starting role for five games that season. Quinn would be gone the next season as Aikman and Garrett would be the only two quarterbacks on the roster that year.

The New Millennium - The 2000s
the year 2000 saw Aikman remain on as the starting quarterback while his backups were now former Eagles star Randall Cunningham, Anthony Wright, and Clint Stoerner. The Cowboys would go 5-11 that season. Another end of an era, as far as Cowboys fans were concerned, came following the 2000 season when Troy Aikman announced his retirement. When the 2001 season came about there was a lot of confusion when it came to who the starting quarterback for the Cowboys would be. Quincy Carter started half the games that year, but also seeing time at the starting quarterback position were Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, and Clint Stoerner. It was no surprise when the Cowboys followed one 5-11 season with another one that year. The 2002 season would start with a bad omen when the Cowboys would lose the first game of the year to the expansion Houston Texans. The Cowboys would finish the year with their third consecutive 5-11 season behind the quarterbacking of Chad Hutchinson and Quincy Carter. Bill Parcells would come to the Cowboys in 2003 and he would immediately have an impact by making Carter his starter for all 16 games and leading the Cowboys back to the playoffs with a 10-6 record. Veteran quarterback Vinny Testaverde would start 15 games for the Cowboys in 2004, Drew Henson started the other one, but the Cowboys would invert their previous season record by going 6-10. The Cowboys would replace one veteran starting quarterback with another in 2005 when Drew Bledsoe would come to town and start all 16 games and go 9-7. After Bledsoe started Parcells’ fourth season with the Cowboys putting up a 3-3 record, the move was made to go with young Tony Romo. In 2006, Romo would go 6-4 as a starter and the Cowboys would again establish a 9-7 record. The 2007 season saw the franchise starting over at head coach with the addition of Wade Phillips, but Tony Romo had moved to the full time starter and went 13-3 and returned the Cowboys to the playoffs with Brad Johnson as his backup.

The Dallas Cowboys are one of the most popular teams in the NFL, and with good reason. They have had some of the most successful teams and some of the game’s best and most popular players. The quarterbacks of the Dallas Cowboys have always drawn some of the most attention of any players in the league and in the cases of Don Meredith, Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, and now Tony Romo, it looks like it is well deserved. The popularity of the Cowboys shows no sign of going away anytime soon and fans of the team have a great deal to be proud of. The quarterbacks of “America’s Team” have a unique place in professional football history as they have come to be known as the face and leadership of one of the best teams in the NFL.

The University of Southern California is currently ranked number one in the nation in college football and they are one of the most storied college football programs in the country’s history. They always seem to be in the news every year, making headlines with their incredible on field performances. So here is a look at some interesting facts about the USC Trojans.

The NFL Draft started in 1937 and from then up through the 2008 NFL Draft, only one year has passed by without a USC Trojan being selected by any NFL team, that year was the second year of the draft, 1938.

The most career touchdowns scored in the NFL by a former USC player is 145 by former Raiders and Chiefs running back Marcus Allen.

The tallest player ever drafted into the NFL from USC was 6′8″, this was done three times, the most recent occuring in 1986 when the San Diego Chargers drafted offensive lineman James Fitzpatrick. The heaviest player ever drafted out of USC was in 2006 when 340 pound Deuce Lutui was picked by the Arizona Cardinals.

The first USC Trojan inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame was former halfback and star of the New York Giants, Frank Gifford in 1977.

In 1970, USC became the first fully racially integrated college football team to play in the state of Alabama when they played the University of Alabama.

If during any college football day USC wins while both Notre Dame and UCLA lose, it is known among Trojan fans as a “perfect day”.

The first Trojan inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame was former head coach Howard Jones.

Through the 2008 induction, there are 11 former USC Trojans that have gotten enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The most players ever drafted in one year out of the University of Southern California was in 1953 when fifteen players left USC for the NFL. Twice USC has had fourteen players selected in the NFL Draft, that happened in 1975 and 1977.

Some of the former USC Trojan football players who have made the transition to the sidelines and coaching: Jeff Fisher, Jack Del Rio, Mike Holmgren, Sam Anno, Rocky Seto, Hudson Houck, Jim Fassel, and Kennedy Pola.

The New England Patriots’ Last Losing Season

With the recent injury to quarterback Tom Brady, there has been a great deal of speculation about how the New England Patriots will do this season. At this point, it looks like the team is being turned over to backup quarterback Matt Cassel and after winning his first game as a starter over the New York Jets that looks like a good decision. While making no judgment on how the Patriots will do this year, it does bring up the idea of what were the circumstances during the last time the New England Patriots had a losing season?

The Players

The year was 2000. It was Bill Belichick’s first year as head coach of the team and they’re starting quarterback was Drew Bledsoe. Tom Brady was on the roster, but he threw just three passes that year and only completing one, coincidentally that is the same number of pass completions that the punter Lee Johnson had that season. The rushing duties were split with Kevin Faulk leading the team in rushing with 570 yards and J.R. Redmond coming in second on the team with 406 yards rushing. The leading receiver on the team that year were Troy Brown and Terry Glenn, Glenn had the most receiving yards with 963 while Brown had the most receptions with 83. The leading tackler on the team was strong safety Lawyer Milloy with 90, followed by linebacker Tedy Bruschi who racked up 73. When it comes to the defense, they didn’t score any touchdowns that year either by fumble recovery or interception return, in three players tied for the lead in interceptions for the Patriots during the 2000 season, Ty Law, Lawyer Milloy, and Tebucky Jones; all three players were tied with just two interceptions apiece. The leading scorer on the team was kicker Adam Vinatieri who scored 106 points, the leading scorer for non-kickers was wide receiver Terry Glenn who scored 36 points on his six touchdowns.

The Team

As a team, the Patriots scored 27 touchdowns over the course of the season while giving up 35 to their opponents. Their offense ranked 25th in the league and their defense ranked 17th. The 2000 Patriots started the season 0-4 as the suffered losses to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New York Jets, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Miami Dolphins. They then seemed to turn it around as they netted back to back victories against the Denver Broncos and the Indianapolis Colts. They then lost games to the Jets and the Colts again to lower their overall record 2-6 as they entered their bye week. New England came out of the bye week with two more losses to the Buffalo Bills and Cleveland Browns before winning a close game over the Cincinnati Bengals. The Patriots alternated wins and losses through the rest of the season; losing to the Detroit Lions, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs, falling to the Chicago Bears, winning their second game against the Bills, and then losing their final game of the year to the Dolphins.

New England would build on this season and go on to win the Super Bowl the very next year. The key moment in the team’s development appears to be the injury to Drew Bledsoe that made Tom Brady the starter. The Patriots went on to win three Super Bowls in four years and become one of the best football teams of all time.

What we’re looking for today is the quarterback that has thrown the most touchdown passes while playing for the most teams. To rank in the top all time list of touchdown passers in the history of the NFL obviously means the player has to be good. But there is something to be said for a player that spends his career going from team to team as well. So, who ranks the highest in touchdown passes while spending their career on the most teams?

Dave Krieg spent his nineteen year career on the rosters of six different teams. He spent the largest amount of time with the Seattle Seahawks where he also made the Pro Bowl three times. After leaving the Seahawks, Krieg would spend time as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, and Tennessee Titans. He would finish his career with 261 touchdown passes which puts him at tenth in the all time TD passing list.

But, there is someone who can top Dave Krieg…

Vinny Testaverde’s career spans from 1988 through 2007, though he still could continue it longer too, during that time he has thrown for 275 touchdowns which places him 8th all time in terms of touchdown passes thrown. During his career he has managed to play for seven different teams including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, and Carolina Panthers. He even had a second stint with the New York Jets.

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Not really an answer, more like a correction. Krissy Knowitall recently sent a comment to us stating that we had a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fact wrong. We had originally included that two former Bucs starting quarterbacks had gone on to win Super Bowls with other teams (Doug Williams and Trent Dilfer), somehow we inadvertently left out Hall of Famer Steve Young. Thanks Krissy, the injustice has been corrected now in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers page!

While we’re at it, here are a couple of other interesting facts about Steve Young:

-Through 15 seasons in the NFL, Steve Young only started all 16 games of the season three times (1992, 1993, and 1994).

-In 1985 and 1986 as a part time starter with the Buccaneers, Steve Young had below .500 records of 1-4 and 2-12 respectively. In his thirteen seasons with the 49ers he only had one season with a below .500 record as the starting quarterback. This came in 1990 when he started one game for the team and they lost it.

-Even though Steve Young spent the first six seasons of his NFL career as a backup, he never went a full season in the NFL without having at least one rushing touchdown.

-In 1991, the longest touchdown pass thrown by any quarterback in the NFL was thrown by San Francisco’s Steve Young and covered 97 yards.

-Even though Steve Young played at the quarterback position, here are a few notable names that he ranks ahead of in the category of career rushing yards (through the 2007 season): Alan Ameche, “Fast” Willie Parker, Dalton Hilliard, Mike Anderson, Edgar Bennett, Leroy Hoard, Rocky Bleier, Bam Morris, Jim Kiick, Reggie Cobb, Paul Hornung, Fran Tarkenton, Frank Gifford, Reuben Droughns, Tony Nathan, Julius Jones, Rueben Mayes, and Lamont Jordan.