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Warren Moon, who made seven playoff appearances, was the first Black quarterback elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [3] During his NFL career (1984–2000), he was the first Black quarterback on four different teams. [1] [21] The 2023–2024 playoffs featured six starting Black quarterbacks, the most in NFL history. [24] [f]
After a year away from football, Williams signed with the Oklahoma Outlaws of the upstart United States Football League. The Outlaws briefly called Hall of Fame coach and quarterback guru Sid Gillman out of retirement as director of football operations, and Williams was Gillman's highest-profile signing. Williams signed a $3 million contract ...
The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The Pro Football Hall of Fame includes players, coaches, and contributors (e.g., owners, general managers and team or league officials or other non-players) who have "made outstanding contributions to professional football". The charter class of seventeen was selected in 1963.
George Taliaferro (January 8, 1927 – October 8, 2018) was an American professional football player who was the first African American drafted by a National Football League (NFL) team. [2] Beginning his football career at Indiana University for the Hoosiers team , he played in the NFL for the New York Yanks from 1950 to 1951, the Dallas Texans ...
He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006, becoming the first African-American quarterback and the first undrafted quarterback to receive the honor. Moon is also the only player inducted to both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
A new Prime Video docuseries which reveals the history of Black quarterbacks in the NFL, includes the stories of three men with ties to the Lions.
The Black College Football Hall of Fame (BCFHOF) [1] is an American hall of fame for college football players, coaches and contributors from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). It was founded in 2009 in Atlanta, centrally located to many of the country's black universities. [2]
Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback in the American Football League and a former Rams signal-caller, dies at age 76. ... Briscoe was inducted into the College Football Hall of ...