Tom Flores
American football player, coach and executive (born 1937) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Raymond Flores (born March 21, 1937) is an American former professional football player in the American Football League (AFL) and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a quarterback for nine seasons in the AFL, primarily with the Oakland Raiders. After his retirement as a coach, he was a radio announcer for more than twenty years.
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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||||||||
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Born: | (1937-03-21) March 21, 1937 (age 87) Sanger, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight: | 202 lb (92 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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High school: | Sanger Union (Sanger, California) | ||||||||||||||||
College: | Pacific | ||||||||||||||||
Undrafted: | 1958 | ||||||||||||||||
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Regular season: | 97–87 (.527) | ||||||||||||||||
Postseason: | 11–8 (.579) | ||||||||||||||||
Career: | 108–95 (.532) | ||||||||||||||||
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Flores won four Super Bowls in his playing and coaching careers. He and Mike Ditka are the only two people in NFL history to win a Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach, and head coach (Flores won Super Bowl IV as a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl XI as an assistant coach of the Raiders, and Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVIII as head coach of the Raiders). Flores was also the first Mexican starting quarterback and the first minority head coach in professional football history to win a Super Bowl. Although it may not be officially sourced, Flores is also noted as the only head coach to win a Super Bowl with the same team in two cities in Oakland (1980) and Los Angeles (1983).[1]
From 1997 until 2018, Flores served as an announcer for the Raiders Radio Network.[2] Flores was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021 as a head coach.