Ted Hendricks

  • 8 × Pro Bowl selection ( 1971-1973, 1975, 1980-1983)
  • 9 × All-Pro selection ( 1971-1974, 1976-1978, 1980-1982 ) 1 2 team
  • NFL 75th Anniversary All- Time Team
  • NFL 1970s All- Decade Team
  • 4x AFC Champion (1970, 1976, 1980, 1983)
  • 4x Super Bowl champion V, XI, XV, XVIII
  • College Football Hall of Fame (1987 )
  • Pro Football Hall of Fame (1990 )
  • Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (2006)
  • California Sports Hall of Fame (2012 )
  • University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame (1980 )
  • Florida Sports Hall of Fame
  • Baltimore Ravens Ring of Honor

Theodore " Ted" Paul Hendricks ( born November 1, 1947 in Guatemala City, Guatemala), nicknamed " Mad Stork " is a former American professional American football player in the National Football League ( NFL). He played as a linebacker for the Baltimore Colts, the Green Bay Packers and the Oakland Raiders / Los Angeles Raiders. With the Baltimore Colts, he won a Super Bowl with the Raiders three. In 1990, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Youth

Ted Hendricks was born in Guatemala. His father worked at that time in an airline company. He spent his youth in Hialeh, Florida, where he also attended high school. At school he played alongside football and baseball and basketball. After finishing school he studied at the University of Miami.

Career

College

Hendricks studied from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Miami Physics and Mathematics. He also played for their football team, the Miami Hurricanes, as a defensive end. In 1966, he moved in with his team in the Liberty Bowl, where they were able to defeat the team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with 14:7. The following year, his team lost in the Bluebonnet Bowl against the team from the University of Colorado at Boulder with 31:21. Hendricks was elected in all three years of study to the All- American. His College awarded him likewise from three times because of his athletic achievements. With 327 tackles as a player, he leads the defensive line today (2013 ) the record list at his college.

NFL

1969 Hendricks has been selected by the trained by Don Shula Baltimore Colts in the second round of the NFL Draft as the 33rd player. The Colts put Hendricks as a linebacker in the defense of the team. From the middle of his rookie season, he was his team's starter. The following year he won his first Super Bowl under the new coach of the Colts Don McCafferty. After the Colts in the AFC Championship Game had the Oakland Raiders defeated with 27:17, Hendricks had made it a sack against quarterback George Blanda, they went to the Super Bowl V against the Dallas Cowboys. The team of coach Tom Landry could be beaten in the game with just under 16:13. Ted Hendricks played until 1973 when the Colts and was then submitted to the Green Bay Packers. Although Hendricks 1974 a good season played, he succeeded in including five interceptions, the Packers could not move into the play-offs. Hendricks wrote after one season in Green Bay a contract with one of the top teams in the NFL, the Oakland Raiders managed by John Madden after exposure to a newly formed League of NFL competition was due to not come out of their bankruptcy about.

In 1976 Hendricks win with his new team its second Super Bowl. In the regular season, the team from Oakland had won 13 of 14 games. Opponent in the Divisional play-off game were the New England Patriots, who could be defeated with just 24:21. In the AFC Championship Game, the team met with the versions that Chuck Noll Pittsburgh Steelers. The team led by Gene Upshaw, Ken Stabler and Ted Hendricks managed to avenge their defeat in 16:10 AFC Championship Game in 1975 and won with 24:7. Opponent in Super Bowl XI were the Minnesota Vikings, who had to admit defeat with 32:14 of the team from Oakland. 1977 could not defend Hendricks with the Raiders to the Super Bowl title. They met in the AFC Championship game to the Denver Broncos and left with a 20:17 defeat the playing field.

After the 1978 season Tom Flores took over the coaching reins at the Raiders. Although the coach of the team spoke out after the 1979 season for dismissal of Hendricks, gave Al Davis, the owner of the Raiders, hold on to it. Ted Hendricks played an excellent season in 1980. He intercepted three passes of the opposing quarterbacks, and achieved 8.5 Sacks. After the season he celebrated his third Super Bowl victory. The team had won eleven of 16 games and moved so that in the wildcard game of the American Football Conference ( AFC ) against the Houston Oilers in. The game ended with 27:7 for the Raiders, who also won the subsequent Divisional play-off game against the Cleveland Browns at 14:12. In the AFC Championship Game the Raiders met the San Diego Chargers and could almost say with 34:27 in the game. Dick Vermeil was then with his Philadelphia Eagles of the opponents of the Raiders in Super Bowl XV. The Raiders put themselves in the game with 27:10 through.

1982 moved the Raiders to Los Angeles. The team won in 1983 twelve of sixteen games and reached for a 30:14 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the AFC Championship game for the umpteenth time the Super Bowl, where it met in Super Bowl XVIII on the Washington Redskins. Joe Gibbs was largely a chance with his team in the game and lost significantly against the Raiders with 38:9. After 215 games in the NFL Hendricks finished his career after this season.

He now works in the election committee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Honors

Ted Hendricks played eight times in the Pro Bowl nine times and was voted All- Pro. Hendricks is a member of the NFL 75th Anniversary All- Time Team, 1970s in the NFL All- Decade Team in the College Football Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame, the California Sports Hall of Fame and in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, as well as in the Florida Sports Hall of Fame. 1999 elected him the magazine The Sporting News "on # 64 of the list of the 100 best football players of all time. , The broadcaster of the NFL leads him to place 82 of their list. Ted Hendricks will be honored on the Baltimore Ravens Ring of Honor.

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