Joe Theismann
- Toronto Argonauts (CFL ) ( 1971-1973 )
- Washington Redskins (1974-1985)
- 2x Pro Bowl selection ( 1982.1983 )
- 3x All Pro selection ( 1979, 1982, 1983) 1 2 team
- Super Bowl XVII Winner
- Pro Bowl MVP in 1983
- Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
- Bert Bell Award
Joseph Robert " Joe" Theismann ( born September 9, 1949 in New Brunswick, New Jersey ) is an American former American football player at the position of quarterback. He played for the Washington Redskins in the National Football League ( NFL).
Youth and College
Theismann comes from the Austro -Hungarian parents and played at the Catholic University of Notre Dame, with whom he won the 1971 Cotton Bowl. Theismann was an All-American and Academic All-America and second in the Heisman Trophy after Jim Plunkett.
NFL
Theismann was selected in 1971 by the Miami Dolphins in the NFL Draft, and the major league baseball team Minnesota Twins in the 1971 Major League Baseball Draft, but then signed with the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League ( CFL).
In 1974 he moved to the Washington Redskins, where he ran aground as a starting quarterback since 1978. Theismann led team, coached by Head Coach Joe Gibbs Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XVII against the Miami Dolphins ( Full Time: 27:17 ), after which he was appointed by President Reagan to " attack minister". The title defense in Super Bowl XVIII failed. Theismann put on some Redskins internal records, was Most Valuable Player in 1983 and Pro Bowl MVP in his second Pro Bowl. The last quarterback he wore instead of the usual helmet grating a single rod in order to have better vision.
On 18 November 1985 Theismann suffered probably the worst violation of NFL history, live in the Monday Night Football game broadcast. The New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson made in a flash one quarterback sack, the three players collided and fell locked together on the floor. Taylor immediately jumped up and waved panic, what was initially misunderstood by some as a dance of joy. In the slow-motion replay - from another angle - was then to see that Theis 's right leg had been so pinched that tibia and fibula were bent with an open comminuted fracture in the middle. This was chosen as the " NFL 's Most Shocking Moment in History" and referred to as "The Hit That No One Who Saw It Can Ever Forget " by The Washington Post.
The Monday Night Football reporter Frank Gifford, OJ Simpson and Joe Namath immediately recognized that Taylor, nicknamed LT one of the best defensive players of all time, the paramedics had called. LT says he never wants to watch a recording of it while Theismann reported that he had felt no pain.
The career of the then 36 -year-old Theismann was completed, he then worked as a television presenter. In 1982 he received the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award and the Bert Bell Award.