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conace21 wrote:Tony Dungy is the only one I can come up with.

Ken Stabler?

Tony Dungy is the only one I can come up with.

He's the first I thought of immediately. I came up with 3 others which are actually easy if you think outside the box. I'm stuck on the last one. Probably just someone I missed.

conace21 wrote:Tony Dungy is the only one I can come up with.

Yes, Dungy is one of them-- he's enshrined as a coach, of course, but he was a backup safety for the Steelers and an occasional starter for the 49ers in the late 70s.

There's a bit of a technicality in the question for the other four who were great, but never selected to appear in the Pro Bowl. Mr. Babcock is on the right track here.

If I guessed Bobby Anderson and John Cappeletti, would I be on the right track?

Citizen wrote:If I guessed Bobby Anderson and John Cappeletti, would I be on the right track?

No, but I do need to be more specific-- I didn't consider the College Football Hall of Fame. The players I'm thinking of are enshrined at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. The technicality is that they were not picked for the Pro Bowl.

Mark L. Ford wrote:No, but I do need to be more specific-- I didn't consider the College Football Hall of Fame. The players I'm thinking of are enshrined at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. The technicality is that they were not picked for the Pro Bowl.

Interesting. Would Ron Mix meet the criteria?

Bryan wrote:

Mark L. Ford wrote:No, but I do need to be more specific-- I didn't consider the College Football Hall of Fame. The players I'm thinking of are enshrined at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. The technicality is that they were not picked for the Pro Bowl.

Interesting. Would Ron Mix meet the criteria?

Yes, Ron Mix is one of them. The venerable George Blanda is another.

Mark L. Ford wrote:

Bryan wrote:

Mark L. Ford wrote:No, but I do need to be more specific-- I didn't consider the College Football Hall of Fame. The players I'm thinking of are enshrined at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. The technicality is that they were not picked for the Pro Bowl.

Interesting. Would Ron Mix meet the criteria?

Yes, Ron Mix is one of them. The venerable George Blanda is another.

Lance Alworth

Yes, Ron Mix is one of them. The venerable George Blanda is another.

Blanda was one one I couldn’t come up with even though he was my answer to yesterday’s question! Dungy was the the guy that immediately came to mind. Then I realized the other 4 had to be AFL players. I came up with 3 but missed Blanda. So here are the 5...

Dungy
Alworth
Maynard
Mix
Blanda

ChrisBabcock wrote:

Yes, Ron Mix is one of them. The venerable George Blanda is another.

Blanda was one one I couldn’t come up with even though he was my answer to yesterday’s question! Dungy was the the guy that immediately came to mind. Then I realized the other 4 had to be AFL players. I came up with 3 but missed Blanda. So here are the 5...

Dungy
Alworth
Maynard
Mix
Blanda

That's the answer-- the technicality, of course, is that the last four were selected many times for the AFL All-Star Game, but that the Pro Bowl was the name strictly for the NFL. None of them were selected after the merger when it became an AFC-NFC thing.