Andre Ware

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Andre Ware
Date of birth	July 31, 1968
Place of birth	Galveston, TX
Position(s)	Quarterback
College	Houston
NFL Draft	1990 / Round 1/ Pick 7
Awards	1989 Heisman Trophy 1989 Davey O'Brien Award
Statistics	DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1990-1993 1994 1996 1997	Detroit Lions Oakland Raiders B.C. Lions Toronto Argonauts
College Hall-of-Fame

Andre Ware (born July 31, 1968) was a quarterback for the Detroit Lions.

[edit] College career

Prior to that he played at the University of Houston, where he was the first black quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy in 1989, along with the Davey O'Brien Award, the latter award given to the most outstanding college quarterback of the year. He was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions.

[edit] Pro Football career

Ware joined the Lions for the 1990 season, teaming with the previous Heisman Trophy winner from 1988, Barry Sanders. However, Ware was unable to win any significant playing time with Rodney Peete starting and Bob Gagliano coming off the bench as the primary backup. Ware spent four years with Detroit, playing 14 games and starting six. His best stretch came late in the '92 season when the Lions were out of the playoffs, and he won two of three games. The loss came on Monday Night Football when he almost led an upset of San Francisco. He began 1994 on the roster of the Oakland Raiders, but was cut after several games.

Ware also played in the Canadian Football League with the B.C. Lions and the Toronto Argonauts (where he backed up Doug Flutie), and five games with the Berlin Thunder, a German NFL Europe team.

[edit] After Pro Football

Along with Marc Vandermeer and John Granato, Ware is now part of the Houston Texans' radio broadcast team, and is a college football game analyst for ESPN and ABC Sports.

Contrary to the belief that Andre Ware provided voice work in the animated film Ultimate Avengers as Nick Fury, he in fact did not. However, an actor who goes by Andre Ware (1) (and sometimes Frank Andre Ware) provided the Fury's voice. The actor Andre Ware's bio may be found in http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912107/