Lynn Dickey
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| Lynn Dickey | |
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| Position(s): Quarterback |
Jersey #(s): 12 |
| Born: October 19, 1949 Miami County, Kansas |
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| Career Information | |
| Year(s): 1971–1985 | |
| NFL Draft: 1971 / Round: 3 / Pick: 56 | |
| College: Kansas State | |
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| Career Stats | |
| TD-INT | 141-179 |
| Yards | 23,322 |
| QB Rating | 70.9 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Career Highlights and Awards | |
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Clifford Lynn Dickey (born October 19, 1949, in Miami County, Kansas) was a professional football quarterback for the Houston Oilers and the Green Bay Packers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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[edit] High school
Dickey grew up in Osawatomie, Kansas, where he led his high school football team to a state championship.
[edit] College career
Dickey was recruited by Kansas State University in 1967, and he soon became the top quarterback in the Big Eight Conference. Following his senior season in 1970, Dickey finished 10th in the voting for the Heisman Trophy and was named MVP of the East-West Shrine Game. He still holds the Kansas State record for passing yards in a career with 6,208.
[edit] Professional career
[edit] Houston Oilers
Following graduation in 1971, Dickey was drafted in the third round of the 1971 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers, where he played four seasons.
[edit] Green Bay Packers
In 1976 he was packaged in a trade to Green Bay involving John Hadl. Dickey's career was more successful with the Green Bay Packers, from 1976 to 1985.
The high point of Dickey's NFL career came in |1983 when he powered the Packers' offense to a then-team record 429 points. He threw for 4,458 yards, which was the third-highest total in NFL history at the time, and remains a team record. Dickey also threw an NFL-best 32 touchdowns that season and was named second-team All-NFC behind Joe Theismann. Ironically, Dickey's Packers had beaten Theismann's Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins in a thrilling Monday Night Football game earlier that season (Washington kicker Mark Mosley missed a field goal in the closing seconds, preserving the Packers' 48-47 win). The game remains the highest aggregate score in MNF history. Dickey retired from professional football after the 1985 season. He remains the third-leading passer in Green Bay history, behind Brett Favre and Bart Starr.
[edit] Personal life
After retiring from football, Dickey relocated to the greater Kansas City area where he opened a football-themed restaurant. After a business partner was found to be unethical, he left the restaurant business for a career in public relations. Dickey has three grown daughters and resides in Leawood, Kansas. He now works for the popular Kansas City AM station Sports Radio 810 on the show "Crunch Time", airing at 9:00 a.m.
[edit] Honors
In 1996, when the Big Eight expanded to the Big 12 Conference, the Associated Press named Dickey as the All-Time Big Eight Quarterback. Kansas State University has retired the No. 11 to jointly honor Dickey and his successor at KSU, Steve Grogan. It is the only number retired by Kansas State's football program.
Dickey is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.
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| Preceded by John Hadl |
Green Bay Packers Starting Quarterbacks 1976-1977, 1979-1985 |
Succeeded by David Whitehurst (1978-1979) Jim Zorn (1985) Randy Wright (1985) |
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