Kenneth Michael Stabler was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League for 17 seasons, primarily with the Oakland Raiders.
25 Facts About Ken Stabler
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Ken Stabler helped the Raiders win their first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XI.
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Ken Stabler was posthumously inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Ken Stabler became a highly touted football player at Foley High School in Foley, Alabama.
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Ken Stabler was an all-around athlete in high school, averaging 29 points a game in basketball and excelling enough as a left-handed pitcher in baseball to receive minor-league contract offers from the Houston Astros and New York Yankees.
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Ken Stabler was recruited by head coach Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
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Ken Stabler was on the freshman team in 1964, when the Crimson Tide won the National Championship with quarterbacks Joe Namath and Steve Sloan.
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Ken Stabler was drafted to play baseball by the New York Yankees in 1966, the New York Mets in 1967, and the Houston Astros in 1968.
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Ken Stabler signed a two-year contract with the Raiders in March 1968.
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Ken Stabler made his first regular season appearance as a Raider in 1970.
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Ken Stabler first attracted attention in the NFL in a 1972 playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Ken Stabler was awarded the Hickok Belt for 1976, as the year's top professional sports athlete.
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Ken Stabler left as the Raiders' all-time leader in completions, passing yards, and touchdown passes.
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The Saints then acquired New York Jets veteran Richard Todd, who like Ken Stabler played for Bryant at Alabama, before the 1984 season and Ken Stabler retired in the middle of that season, in late October.
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Ken Stabler was the fastest to win 100 games as a starting quarterback, having done so in 150 games, which bettered Johnny Unitas' previous mark of 153 games.
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Ken Stabler was the first NFL quarterback to retire with at least 200 passing yards per game in the playoffs.
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Ken Stabler signed a contract to play for the Birmingham Americans.
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Ken Stabler was named the twenty-seventh greatest quarterback of the post-merger era by Football Nation.
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At the 2016 NFL Honors, it was announced that Ken Stabler had been selected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and he was officially inducted on August 6,2016.
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Ken Stabler left before Alabama's 2008 season and was replaced by Phil Savage.
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Ken Stabler was married three times: to Isabel Clarke from 1968 to 1973, to Debbie Fitzsimmons from 1975 to 1978, and to Rose Molly Burch from 1984 to 2009.
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In 2017, Alexa Ken Stabler-Adams was certified by the NFLPA as a sports agent.
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Ken Stabler died of colon cancer on July 8,2015, at the age of 69.
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Ken Stabler had been diagnosed with the disease in February 2015.
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Ken Stabler was buried at Pine Rest Cemetery in Foley, Alabama.