Tobin Rote
Green Bay Packers
Tobin Rote played quarterback for the NFL's Green Bay Packers and
Detroit Lions, the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, and the
American Football League's San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos. In
college, he led Rice University to a Southwest Conference title in
1949.He became a Hall of Fame quarterback, first becoming a star when he
replaced Bobby Layne in 1957 and led the Detroit Lions to their last NFL
championship. Rote played for Green Bay from 1950-56; led the league in
touchdown passes, passing yards, and TDs in 1955; traded to Detroit in
1957 after the Packers drafted Bart Starr in 1956
Rote was the only man to quarterback teams to championships in both the
NFL and the American Football League. Rote led the 1957 Detroit Lions to
a championship, then followed that six years later with the AFL's
Chargers, who defeated the Boston Patriots to win the 1963 championship.
Rote was selected as the AP's American Football League Most Valuable
Player in 1963. Rote accumulated 15,144 yards passing in the NFL, 9,872
in the CFL, and 3,706 in the AFL for a total of 28,722: more than Daryle
Lamonica, Jack Kemp, Bob Griese or Joe Namath, and just 5 yards short of
Len Dawson. He had 115 td throws in the NFL, 66 in the CFL, and 33 in
the AFL for a total of 214: more than Flores, Kemp, Lamonica, Namath,
Parilli, or Griese.
(Wikipedia)
