![]() The Cowboys took his Chicago teammate Don Healy, who suggested that they look at Howley. ![]() He returned to Wheeling and was working at a gas station in 1960 when Dallas was awarded an expansion franchise and needed players to start a new team. That prematurely ended his season, and more than likely, his pro career. "I got crack-backed when the crack-back block was still legal," Howley said. Two years later, when Howley was a second-year player for the Chicago Bears, he severely injured his knee during a preseason practice. You're not going to play until that jaw heals properly,'" he said. Chuck, if you get hit a certain way, you're dead. They decided to send me to Wheeling to have the operation, and I thought as soon as they wired my mouth shut, I could go up to Penn State and play in the game. "I don't even know if we were in pads," Howley recalled, "but somehow, I stuck my head in there and caught a knee to the jaw. Howley overcame overwhelming odds to become one of pro football's best outside linebackers in the late 1960s.Īt WVU, he was a five-sport standout lettering in football, wrestling, track, swimming and diving and gymnastics, but nagging injuries kept him from earning greater glory on the gridiron.Ī broken jaw suffered in practice wiped out a good portion of his senior year in 1957. "She went out to a bridge party one night and she hit the accelerator, the tires squealed, and she brought that car right home and she said, 'Chuck, you can take it! I don't want it!'" he recalled in 2011. He didn't realize that he won the award until a reporter asked him about it in the locker room afterward and he was handed the keys to a new Dodge Charger, which he decided to give to his wife. The two teams combined for 11 turnovers and the Cowboys were penalized 10 times in what later became known as the "Blooper Bowl."īut Howley played a terrific game, intercepting two passes and forcing a Johnny Unitas fumble. He is still the only player from a losing team to earn Super Bowl MVP honors when the Cowboys lost to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V. Howley was a six-time All-Pro playing for the Dallas Cowboys, but he is best known as the answer to a trivia question. The rest of this year's class consists of offensive tackle Joe Thomas, linebackers Zach Thomas and DeMarcus Ware, cornerbacks Darrelle Revis and Ronde Barber and coach Don Coryell. ![]() He joins a 2023 Hall of Fame class that also includes Seniors' nominees Joe Klecko and Ken Riley. Yesterday, the 86-year-old Warwood, West Virginia, native was one of three players submitted by the Seniors Committee to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. – Chuck Howley's long wait is finally over. ![]()
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