Super Bowl Count
- Thread starter psuflipoh
- Start date
That can't be right how can Pitt have 195 NFL Hall of Fame players and not even make the list?
Hmmm...do we get credit for Hogan this year (likely he becomes Monmouth's first)? Any other Penn Staters playing?
Yea, where are the pitters? They didn't even make the list. What about Traffic Ticket Tony and Dan "Sniff Sniff" Marino and their contemporaries? There should be many pitters playing the Super Bowl unless they just can't win big games.
I will give Miami credit.
Their program had only had success since the 1980s and yet they have had more talent in the Super Bowl than programs who were successful during the entire run of the Super Bowl.
Their program had only had success since the 1980s and yet they have had more talent in the Super Bowl than programs who were successful during the entire run of the Super Bowl.
Entire article: Pitt is 26th with 61 player appearances.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbss...he-most-super-bowl-players/amp/?client=safari
Chris could join a more elite group than "Penn Staters who played in a Super Bowl" ---- he could become the 6th "college lacrosse player to have won an NFL Title."
By my research, Jim Brown, Steven Hauschka, John Mackey, Mike D'Amoto and Chas Gessner are the only others. Mackey and D'Amoto should probably have an asterisks, considering they were on the 1968 Colts, NFL Champs but not Super Bowl champs.
I'm willing to bet there are others. I know back in the day (my day--ca. late 1970s) that there were a couple PSU football players who also played lacrosse, back in the time when the big sports were not 24/7/365. Wasn't Mauti one of them?
They have put a ton of talent in the NFL since the mid 80's. Not sure about this year, but I remember hearing once that they were represented in the Pro Bowl for something like 30 straight years from 1985 on.
There probably are --- just looked at a few articles that said "NFL players who also played lacrosse in college."
Mauti was specifically mentioned in those articles. Unfortunately, all but 1 year of his NFL career was in the dead middle of the "New Orleans Aints" era. The Redskins were definitely good in 1984 but lost in the NFC Conference semifinals.
Nice to know that I remembered Mauti as one correctly. It was a long time ago.
