Dan Fouts

Dan Fouts

Fouts in 2012
No. 14
Position:	Quarterback
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1951-06-10) June 10, 1951 (age 65)
Place of birth:	San Francisco, California
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	204 lb (93 kg)
Career information
High school:	San Francisco (CA) St. Ignatius College Prep
College:	Oregon
NFL Draft:	1973 / Round: 3 / Pick: 64
Career history
San Diego Chargers (1973–1987)
Career highlights and awards
6× Pro Bowl (1979–1983, 1985) 2× First-team All-Pro (1979, 1982) 2× Second-team All-Pro (1980, 1985) NFL Most Valuable Player (1982) NFL Offensive Player of the Year (1982) 2× AFC Player of the Year (1979, 1982) 4× NFL passing yards leader (1979–1982) 2× NFL passing touchdowns leader (1981, 1982) Los Angeles Chargers No. 14 retired Los Angeles Chargers Hall of Fame NFL 1980s All-Decade Team
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 181 Games started: 171 TD–INT: 254–242 Passing yards: 43,040 Passer rating: 80.2 Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR
Pro Football Hall of Fame

Games played:	181
Games started:	171
TD–INT:	254–242
Passing yards:	43,040
Passer rating:	80.2
Player stats at NFL.com

Daniel Francis Fouts (born June 10, 1951) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). Fouts played his entire professional career with the San Diego Chargers from 1973 through 1987. He was one of the most prolific passing quarterbacks during the 1970s and 1980s, but the Chargers were unable to make it to the Super Bowl during his fifteen-year career. He led the NFL in passing yards four straight years from 1979 to 1982, and became the first player in history to throw for 4,000 yards in three consecutive seasons. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. He is currently a color analyst for NFL games on CBS television and Dial Global radio. Dan is the son of Bay Area Radio Hall of Famer Bob Fouts.

Fouts was born in San Francisco, California. He went to Marin Catholic High School, which is located just north of San Francisco in Kentfield, California for his two first years of High School, and was starting for the varsity team by his sophomore year. He decided to transfer to St. Ignatius College Preparatory (San Francisco, CA) for his final two years of high school.

Fouts was somewhat of an unknown when he accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Oregon to play for the Oregon Ducks football team. Things were quite different after the All-Pac-8 quarterback's career where he set 19 school records, including those for career passing yardage (5,995) and total offense (5,871). He was inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 1992.

...
Wikipedia