Michael Payton was an American football quarterback.
24 Facts About Michael Payton
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Michael Payton played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd, where he won the 1992 Walter Payton Award.
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Michael Payton originally intended to play for Chaump at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and had an apartment rented there.
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However Chaump switched to Marshall University and asked Michael Payton to join him there.
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Michael Payton was set on IUP but his father told him to go and look at Marshall's campus and to reconsider as Marshall played in a higher college football league.
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Michael Payton went to Marshall and because of the quality of the staff, the campus and the football programme decided to attend.
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Michael Payton set the Division I-AA record for season passing efficiency and was named Southern Conference Player of the Year.
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Michael Payton was West Virginia Athlete of the Year and Man of the Year for 1991.
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Michael Payton was awarded the Walter Payton Award for that year and was a consensus first-team All-American.
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Michael Payton again led Marshall to the I-AA title contest, where they defeated Youngstown State in the 1992 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, giving Marshall their first I-AA title.
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Michael Payton was again named Southern Conference Player of the Year, West Virginia Athlete of the Year and Man of the Year.
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Michael Payton finished his college tenure as the Southern Conference's all-time career passing leader, and received the Walter Michael Payton Award, which is given annually to the best player in Division I-AA football.
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Michael Payton is Marshall's fourth highest ever passer with 9.411 career yards-gained and their fifth highest all-time scorer with 69 career touchdowns.
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Michael Payton collapsed after a couple of months in Dallas and was in danger of losing his leg.
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Michael Payton returned to practice within three weeks but was dropped by Dallas days later.
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Michael Payton played for one season in the Arena Football League.
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Michael Payton played as a back-up quarterback for the Florida Bobcats in 1996.
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Michael Payton was inducted in the Marshall University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.
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In January 2015, Michael Payton was one of 17 players elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
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Michael Payton was active with the charities Drug Abuse Resistance Education and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
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Michael Payton was a senior counsellor for Alternative Rehabilitation Communities, a personal trainer and life coach.
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Michael Payton was a voter in the FWAA-NFF Grantland Rice Super 16 Poll.
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Michael Payton had received twelve separate treatments for the disease.
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Michael Payton was a member of the Board of Advisors of the Mr Pennsylvania Football program.