Randall Cunningham

  • NFL Most Valuable Player Award ( 1990)
  • 4 × Pro Bowl (1988, 1989, 1990, 1998)
  • Pro Bowl MVP (1988 )
  • NFL Comeback Player of the Year (1992 )

Randall Wade Cunningham ( born March 27, 1963 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American former American football player at the position of quarterback. He played sixteen years in the National Football League ( NFL), eleven of them for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Youth and College

Randall Cunningham was born on March 27, 1963 in Santa Barbara, California. His father Samuel was a nurse railroad worker and his mother Mabel. He finished high school in Santa Barbara in 1981 and then played until 1984 college football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ( UNLV ), where he was also employed as a punter and selected to the All- American.

NFL

Philadelphia Eagles

Cunningham has been in the NFL Draft in 1985 selected by the Philadelphia Eagles as the 37th player. He was an athletic quarterback who both throw well and was able to walk: in his career, he threw passes for 29,979 yards and scored in the running game more 4,928 yards. In his third year he pushed Ron Jaworski as a starting quarterback and led the team of head coach Buddy Ryan in 1988, NFC Championship Game, where they failed to the Chicago Bears in the mist-shrouded Fog Bowl. Nevertheless, Cunningham was first elected to the Pro Bowl, which he repeated in the next two years. In 1990 he had his best statistical season ( 4,404 yards space gain, 30 touchdowns, 13 interceptions ) and won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award. The following year he suffered a torn ACL, could not build on his achievements and was, according to even years, 1995 released by the Eagles.

Comeback

After a year of abstinence, as an analyst for Turner Network Television (TNT), Cunningham celebrated in 1997 with the Minnesota Vikings an impressive comeback. As the starting quarterback of the Vikings, Brad Johnson, injured turned out, he jumped in and put his wide receiver Randy Moss and Cris Carter as good ( 3,704 yards, 34 touchdowns, Pro Bowl ) that the Vikings with 556 points, a new NFL record lined up. After the Vikings were eliminated in the play- offs in the extension against the Atlanta Falcons, but lost his place at 1999 Cunningham Jeff George. At the end of his career he was still playing as a reservist for the Dallas Cowboys (2000) and the Baltimore Ravens (2001), before he ended his career at the age of 38 years, after 16 seasons in the NFL.

Private life

Cunningham is a born-again Christian and was ordained by the end of his career as a Protestant minister. He is married to Felicity and was the father of two sons. His two- year-old son Christian drowned in 2010 in the domestic whirlpool, Cunningham used for baptisms.

Punt (gridiron football) Fog Bowl (American football) Brad Johnson (American football) Ordination
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