Posted on 02/06/2016 6:30:49 PM PST by GAGOP
Thirty-one years after his final football game and seven months after he lost his life to colon cancer, Ken Stabler is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The former Foley High School three-sport star and Alabama quarterback was among the players picked by the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee on Saturday for the Class of 2016.
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Stabler reached 100 victories faster than any quarterback before him, going 100-50 to break Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas' record of 153 games.
When Stabler retired, his career winning percentage of .661 as a starting quarterback ranked behind only Terry Bradshaw and Roger Staubach.
Good for The Snake
Why the hell did it take 31 years???
Deserved it a long time ago.
I like him and Madden better than Brady and Belichick.
7 months too late
Should have happened while he was alive.
Double dittos
ping
Bout damn time!
Back in his era, Alabama was turning out QBs like crazy.
Scot Hunter who led Alabama to victory over Ole Miss and Archie Manning in what Howard Cosell called the greatest college game ever played.
Ken Stabler, Joe Namath, and Bart Starr were all great.
bump
The Sea of Hands. Still don’t see how he completed that pass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1D02yyhxD4
[snip] The officials convened after the play and determined that there was nothing illegal and allowed it to stand. But Stabler after the game admitted that he had flipped the ball forward on the ground intentionally. Though the Chargers protested vehemently to no avail, the NFL swiftly amended the rules to stipulate that any fumble occurring in the final two minutes of each half or on fourth down can only be advanced by the offensive player who fumbled the ball. The rule has been sometimes invoked as the “Ken Stabler Rule,” in honor of its instigator. [/snip]
http://www.realclearsports.com/lists/rules_named_after_players/ken_stabler_rule.html
Everything You Don’t Know About NFL Legend Ken Stabler
Posted by Marissa Stabler
Sep 10, 2015 8:58:00 AM
http://bark.theloomisagency.com/bark/everything-you-dont-know-about-nfl-legend-ken-stabler
I didn’t really have a lot of sports heroes growing up, but he was one of them.
His statistics don’t look good compared to what QBs are doing now, but he won a lot of games the Raiders had no business winning.
After his death he donated his brain for CTE research and it turns out that he had it pretty bad (although I don’t think anyone can have CTE “good”).
A couple of reasons: first, he was a Raider, and a lot of voters still resent Al Davis for all of his antics and accomplishments. The Raiders of that era were a unique group of individuals and many in the league didn’t believe the presented the “right” image for a league that had become the most powerful in professional sports.
It’s hardly a revelation, but most of those who wore silver and black in those days liked to drink, fight, chase women and raise hell in no particular order. Al Davis and John Madden tolerated it (as long as they won), and didn’t care what the league thought.
Secondly, Stabler was often dismissed as a QB who did little more than dump off short passes to outstanding receivers like Cliff Branch, Dave Casper and Fred Biletnikoff, but it took great skill to read the defense and make those throws. And there were some great defensive players and schemes in the NFL in the 70s, including the team the Raiders often met in the playoffs, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Snake was one of the greats—certainly worthy of induction into the Hall of Fame. Too bad it’s coming after his passing.
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