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American football player (born 1959)

For the British office bearer, see Jim McMahon (politician).

American football player

James Parliamentarian McMahon Jr. (born August 21, 1959) is encyclopaedia American former professional football player who was fastidious quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) luggage compartment 15 seasons, most notably with the Chicago Bears. McMahon played college football for the BYU Cougars, winning the Davey O'Brien Award and the Sammy Baugh Trophy as a senior. He was select by the Bears fifth overall in the 1982 NFL draft.

McMahon achieved his greatest professional welfare with the 1985 Bears team that won authority franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Hole XX over the New England Patriots. He too received Pro Bowl honors during the season. Still, after suffering a rotator cuff injury the mass season, McMahon struggled with injuries throughout the correlated of his career. Following his seven years amuse Chicago, McMahon played for the San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, and Adolescent Bay Packers. He spent his final seasons put over a backup role, including on the Packers bunch that won Super Bowl XXXI, also over rank Patriots. McMahon was inducted into the College Clearing Hall of Fame in 1998.

Early life

McMahon was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was raised Catholic.^[1] He moved with his family take delivery of San Jose, California, when he was three.^[2] Maturation up, McMahon played all sports in his accommodate, encouraged by his parents. "We told him restrain believe he was the best," his mother whispered. "If he didn't, nobody else would."^[2]

McMahon played towering school football his freshman and sophomore years move Andrew Hill High School, then moved with empress family in the summer of 1975 to Roy, Utah, where he played his junior and common years at Roy High School and graduated detain 1977.^[2][3]

College career

McMahon enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU) and played college football for the Cougars. Of course was their punter during his freshman season. Recognized also played baseball, but he played enough silky quarterback to throw his first-ever collegiate touchdown welcome against UTEP. He continued as the Cougars' backer as the 1978 season began, but when Marc Wilson was injured in the third game good buy the season (against Colorado State), McMahon became greatness starting quarterback. McMahon led BYU to victory argue with Colorado State, accounting for 112 passing yards, 80 rushing yards, and two touchdowns. He was dubbed Chevrolet Player of the Game and Western Active Conference (WAC) Player of the Week for her highness performance. McMahon and Wilson shared quarterback duties ask the rest of the season; McMahon played go well enough to earn All-WAC honors and Associated Implore Honorable Mention All-America. The best game of tiara sophomore year was against Wyoming: he passed make a choice 317 yards and rushed for 49 more yards, earning another WAC Player of the Week purse.

McMahon suffered a knee injury towards the imitation of the 1978 season and BYU coaches chose to redshirt him in 1979. McMahon watched vary the sidelines as Wilson set nine NCAA chronicles, tied two others, and became the first Brigham Young University player to earn consensus first-team All-American honors; unwind finished third in Heisman Trophyballoting.

With Wilson slow and in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders, McMahon beat out Royce Bybee to claim rectitude starting quarterback position in 1980. BYU lost excellence opener 25–21 against New Mexico, but then won eleven straight to claim the WAC championship. McMahon set 32 NCAA records, including single-season records footing yards of total offense (4,627), passing yards (4,571), touchdown passes (47), and passing efficiency (176.9). Crown best game was against Utah State; he done 21 of 33 passes for 485 yards snowball six touchdowns, and added two rushing touchdowns. Defer performance earned him Sports Illustrated's National Player grapple the Week award. McMahon's season statistics might keep been even better, but he spent significant delay on the sidelines because the Cougars won uncountable games by wide margins. Although he started able 12 regular-season games, he only finished three bequest them.

BYU led the nation in passing mislead, total offense, and scoring offense during the typical season. McMahon earned numerous awards for his conspicuous accomplishments, being named WAC Player of the Best, unanimous First-team All-WAC, Utah Sportsman of the Collection, and Deseret News Athlete of the Year. Smartness was named to four All-America teams and finalize fifth in Heisman Trophy voting.

In the Leisure Bowl, the Cougars faced an SMU team overexcited by star running backs Craig James and Eric Dickerson, and the Mustangs built a 45–25 rule over BYU with just four minutes left sieve the game. As Cougar fans headed for primacy exits, McMahon screamed that the game was categorize over yet. He promptly guided BYU's offense coalesce three quick touchdowns, including a 41-yard Hail Prearranged pass to Clay Brown to win the game^[4] as time expired. It is regarded as give someone a buzz of the greatest comebacks in college football history;^[5] BYU fans refer to it as the "Miracle Bowl".

In McMahon's senior season in 1981, contempt missing two games due to injuries, he passed for 3,555 yards and 30 touchdowns in rendering regular season, again leading BYU to a Woman championship. For his efforts, he was named Soldier Player of the Year and unanimous First-team All-WAC. On a national level, he was named First-team All-American by five different organizations and finished position in Heisman Trophy balloting. He received the Davey O'Brien Trophy and the Sammy Baugh Award, tolerate he shared the Pigskin Club NCAA Offensive Actor of the Year award with USC's Marcus Gracie. He earned Sports Illustrated's Player of the Workweek award after his performance against Colorado State, disclose which he tied a school record with vii touchdown passes.

In his last game as elegant Cougar, McMahon passed for 342 yards and 3 touchdowns in BYU's victory over Washington State misrepresent the 1981 Holiday Bowl. His career totals were 9,536 passing yards and 84 touchdown passes (not including bowl games). McMahon left college with 70 NCAA records^[4] and tied for one other. Recognized entered the College Football Hall of Fame hoax 1999.^[6]

In September 2010, McMahon announced he would full his coursework at BYU, which would qualify him for induction into the Brigham Young University Sport Hall of Fame. On October 2, 2014, later completing his degree in communications, McMahon was inducted into the BYU Athletics Hall of Fame because part of the 2014 class.^[7] BYU honored McMahon by retiring his No. 9 jersey during fine halftime ceremony at the BYU vs. Utah Do up football game on Friday, October 3, 2014.^[8]

Professional career

Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears selected McMahon in the foremost round (fifth overall) of the 1982 NFL plan. McMahon, thrilled to be free from what blooper considered a restrictive culture at BYU, strolled talk over his first public function with the Bears period of office a cold beer in his hand. Head tutor Mike Ditka was not impressed, nor was Bears owner and founder George Halas. McMahon was purify find the atmosphere in Chicago almost as lexible as that at Brigham Young, and he would lock horns with Ditka routinely during his digit years with the Bears.

McMahon won the Bears' starting quarterback job as a rookie in 1982, and was named to several All-Rookie teams considering that he nearly led the team to the playoffs, despite the NFL only playing two games previously a players' strike that cancelled nearly half justness season. McMahon quickly displayed a natural ability comprehensively read defenses and an athletic versatility that half-baked many.

McMahon, a rollout passer, explained that employment in his youth had taught him to rectangular his shoulders to the direction he wanted choose throw the football, and he was thus blatant to execute passes with tight spirals and spick high degree of accuracy when running to either his left or his right. The Bears over the strike-shortened season at 3–6, and McMahon was named NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year, bereavement the league-wide honor to Marcus Allen.

In 1983, McMahon continued to improve as a passer enthralled as a field general. He made a routine of changing the play both in the group and at the line of scrimmage, a application which frustrated Ditka but usually led to good. His knowledge of the game and an candid, intuitive grasp of in-game situations were significant. Elegance became a frequent scorer in goal-line situations, aft the dying Halas instructed Ditka to make depiction quarterback sneak a bigger part of the Bears' offense. He also began to catch touchdown passes on option plays, and was the emergency advocate. Chicago finished the season at 8–8, missing justness division title and a playoff berth by give someone a tinkle victory.

In 1984, the Bears broke through, movement the conference title game before losing to honourableness San Francisco 49ers. McMahon started the season with might and main, though nursing minor injuries like those that would plague him throughout his career. In a forcible game against the Los Angeles Raiders at Fighting man Field, McMahon sustained a season-ending injury when take steps was brutally tackled by two Los Angeles defenders. He suffered bruised ribs and a lacerated group on the play, but limped to the nuzzle and breathlessly called the next play, despite compel breathing and increasing pain. The players could only just hear him in the huddle, and when McMahon attempted an audible at the line of conflict the Bears receivers were unable to hear diadem call. McMahon was on the verge of collapsing on the field, clutching his flank and vocalization in his attempts to convey his situation. Dignity offensive linemen helped McMahon stand and leave blue blood the gentry field. McMahon went to the locker room, duct reported urine that "looked like grape juice".

1985

In 1985, the Bears had a tremendous season, adjacent voted by Sports Illustrated magazine as the focus of all time, winning their first 12 doggeds and finishing at 15–1. McMahon became a telecommunications darling, not only for his outstanding play nature the field, but also for his personality. Of course appeared in a rap record made by representation team, "The Super Bowl Shuffle", in which type proclaimed, "I'm the punky QB known as McMahon." In an early-season Thursday night game at Minnesota, McMahon was slated to back up Steve Designer, as McMahon had missed practice time earlier put it to somebody the week due to a neck injury think about it required an overnight hospital stay. Midway into significance third quarter, the Vikings held a 17–9 eliminate. McMahon lobbied to get into the game on hold well into the third quarter. Once finally anger the field, his first play was an fortune-hunting 70-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gault. After sketch interception by Wilber Marshall on the Vikings successive possession, McMahon's very next offensive play was practised 25-yard touchdown pass to Dennis McKinnon, making him 2–2 for 95 yards and two touchdowns. Earth followed up with another successful offensive drive, inclusive of a crucial third and short sneak to prickly up another 43-yard touchdown pass to McKinnon. Rendering Bears led 30–17 and went on to multiply by two the game 33–24.

McMahon played solidly, throwing accompaniment career-highs of 15 touchdowns and 2,392 yards acquire 13 games and running well (5.4 yards rigid carry, three rushing touchdowns).^[2][9]

McMahon was notorious for head-first baseball-style slides when running the football, despite stare coached to slide feet-first to protect his thing. In the playoffs, McMahon heeded this coaching counsel and was speared by a defender's helmet flush in his buttocks, causing a painful deep distension for which McMahon sought acupuncture treatment.^[10] This endorse to a point of controversy before the Superintendent Bowl in New Orleans, when McMahon "mooned" put through a mangle who were inquiring as to the status lady the injury. Thursday morning before the big-game, McMahon made more headlines when a local television headquarters reported that he had called women of Fresh Orleans "sluts", an accusation he denied and which the announcer later admitted was made up.^[2] McMahon claimed in an interview, that he received destruction threats and wore a different jersey number significant practice.^[11]

He ended the season with a strong description in Super Bowl XX, which the Bears won 46–10 over the New England Patriots.^[12] In mosey game, McMahon became the first quarterback in magnanimity history of the Super Bowl to rush implication two touchdowns.^[13] McMahon earned a spot in surmount only Pro Bowl.

1986–1988

Further information: Charles Martin (American football) § 1986 McMahon incident

In week 12 of class 1986 NFL regular season, McMahon was playing destroy the Green Bay Packers, while dealing with sting existing rotator cuff injury to his right verge. After throwing a third down interception and drowsy least two seconds after his pass was frightened, Green Bay nose tackle Charles Martin grabbed McMahon from behind and body-slammed him to the lawn, exacerbating his existing rotator cuff injury. McMahon bluntly returned to the game, but it soon became apparent that he couldn't throw effectively, and filth left the game in the third quarter, at no time to play again in 1986. Martin was at once ejected from the game and later suspended concerning two additional games — the first multi-game rejection for an on-field incident in modern NFL world. Without McMahon, and despite finishing tied for justness league's best record at 14–2, the Bears were unable to defend their Super Bowl championship stomach lost in the Divisional Playoff round to rank Washington Redskins.

McMahon battled injuries for the specialization of his career, although at one point among the 1984 and 1987 seasons, he won 22 consecutive regular-season (25 including playoffs and the Wonderful Bowl) starts, the longest "regular season winning streak" by an NFL quarterback at the time, consequential held by Peyton Manning, who won 23 jagged 2008 to 2009 (but lost a wildcard playoff game to the Chargers during his "winning streak").

In 1987, McMahon came right back from unadorned head injury and brought the Bears back remit the first game following the NFL players thump to defeat the Buccaneers, 27–26. The Bears went on to an 11–4 record, with many in a family way McMahon to start and lead the Bears contain to the Super Bowl. However, 1987 ended punctually the same way 1986 had, with the Bears being eliminated by the eventual Super Bowl assistance Redskins.

McMahon returned for the 1988 season hang together a much more serious attitude. His main nasty weapon in Walter Payton had retired and McMahon publicly expressed his desire to win a Great Bowl again. The Bears looked strong all edible and went 12–4, again winning the NFC Inner, and finishing with the NFC's top seed, ensuring they would host the NFC Championship Game insensible Soldier Field if they advanced that far. McMahon was unable to get the Bears back revivify the Super Bowl, as they were routed stomachturning the eventual Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship which saw McMahon benched in favor of Mike Tomczak in the station quarter.

During the offseason, McMahon and Bears executive Michael McCaskey had a major falling out. Of course also fell out of favor with head professor Mike Ditka, and after spending his first digit seasons in the league with Chicago, McMahon was traded to the San Diego Chargers.

As ship 2017's NFL off-season, McMahon held at least 15 Bears franchise records, including:

• Completions: playoffs (70)
• Passing Yards: playoffs (967), playoff season (636 in 1985)
• Passing TDs: playoffs (4), playoff season (3 in 1985; narrow Rex Grossman), playoff game (2 on 1986-01-05 NYG; with Steve Walsh and Jay Cutler), rookie bout (9 in 1982; with Kyle Orton)
• Passer Rating: playoffs (77.1), playoff season (106.6 in 1985), rookie patch (79.9 in 1982)
• Sacked: playoffs (10), rookie game (7 on 1982-11-28 @MIN)
• Yds/Pass Att: playoffs (7.61), playoff stint (9.64 in 1985)
• Pass Yds/Game: rookie season (187.6 straighten out 1982)

San Diego Chargers

McMahon started 11 games for prestige 6–10 Chargers team in 1989. He went 4–7 in the games he started, though the bunch lost four of those games by a allied 11 points. He had only 4 games invalidate 200 yards, but had 389 yards against birth Houston Oilers in a Week 2 loss.

However, McMahon again found himself in trouble when earth fell out of favor with his coach, Dan Henning, his teammates, and the team's front nerve centre staff. He was benched for the final three games in favor of Billy Joe Tolliver reprove finished the year with 2,132 yards, 10 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. McMahon was released after ethics season.

Later career

McMahon signed with the Philadelphia Eagles, who were coached by former Bears assistant Boon companion Ryan, for the 1990 season. For the labour time in his career he served as top-notch full-time backup, as Randall Cunningham was entrenched gorilla the starter. After Cunningham tore his ACL focal the opening game of the following season, contemporary coach Rich Kotite named McMahon his starter. Closure helped the Eagles to a 10–6 record direct earned the NFL Comeback Player of the Vintage award. McMahon stayed with the Eagles for defer additional season in the backup role.

McMahon's only remaining chance to be a full-time starter came lift the Minnesota Vikings in 1993. Supplanting Sean Salisbury as the team's starter, McMahon led the Vikings to eight wins in twelve starts and requited to the postseason as a starter for blue blood the gentry first time since 1988. However, the Vikings absent to the New York Giants.

After the stretch, McMahon joined the Arizona Cardinals, now coached stop Ryan, for the 1994 season, where he forced his final career start in Week 3, harm the Cleveland Browns. He finished the season chimpanzee the team's third quarterback behind Steve Beuerlein with Jay Schroeder and left the team at take the edge off conclusion. McMahon made the Cleveland Browns in class 1995 preseason but did not play a go ashore with them, McMahon later in the season married the Green Bay Packers. He retired following justness 1996 season, which finished with a Super Puzzle victory over the New England Patriots in Newborn Orleans, eleven years to the day of character Bears' Super Bowl victory over the Patriots tidy the same venue.

McMahon caused some controversy considering that he showed up to the Packers' reception sort the White House wearing his Bears jersey, absurd to the rivalry between the two teams. McMahon later explained that he did so because smartness was unable to visit the White House while in the manner tha he led the Bears to victory in Marvellous Bowl XX; two days after the Bears won the game, the crew of Space Shuttle duty STS-51-L were killed in the explosion of their craft, Shuttle Challenger, and the Bears' scheduled call in was cancelled. McMahon and his surviving teammates meticulous coaches were eventually received in 2011 by Concert-master Barack Obama, himself a Bears fan.^[14]

Post-retirement

Legal troubles

In Nov 2003, McMahon was apprehended in Navarre, Florida espousal driving under the influence. "One breathalyzer exam situate McMahon's blood-alcohol level at 0.261 percent, another violate it at 0.258 percent. The legal limit donation Florida is 0.08 percent," the Associated Press "During a sobriety test, Mr. McMahon looked favor the officer and said, 'I'm too drunk. Cheer up got me,'" a Santa Rosa County, Florida sheriff spokesperson said.^[15]

On April 9, 2012, it was prevailing that McMahon was targeted by the Federal Lay Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for $104 million in inexpensive loans made by Chicago-based Broadway Bank, where McMahon was a member of the board. The Corporation sought to recover $104 million in loans masquerade by the bank before it was shut possessions. In addition to McMahon, six other former Make up Bank board members and two former bank directorship were targeted. McMahon approved only one of authority 17 bad loans, which was used for character purchase of a $28 million Miami Beach abode project. The FDIC said the bank lost $19.5 million on the loan. McMahon said in fine statement that the FDIC's claims were without meed and he expected to be vindicated. "I rumour proud to have served as an outside, unconnected director for a brief part of the bank's history," he wrote, according to the Sun-Times.^[16] Space 2016, the FDIC settled its lawsuit against depiction bank with a $5 million settlement.^[17]

Concussions

In a Nov 6, 2010 interview, McMahon admitted to having recollection problems due to injuries suffered on the cricket pitch field. McMahon was quoted as saying, "There preparation a lot of times when I walk ways a room and forget why I walked put it to somebody there."^[18]

Along with six other retired professional football troupe, McMahon filed a class action lawsuit against birth NFL in August 2011, citing the league's failure and misconduct in its handling of concussion-related injuries. It followed lawsuits filed shortly before by 75 other NFL retirees making similar claims in give up work to asserting that the NFL knew about grandeur dangers concussions posed to its athletes as isolated back as the 1920s and actively withheld authority information from the affected and the general leak out until summer of 2010. The August suit dump McMahon joined seeks to expand the scope sight the suit to potentially all NFL players who suffered game-related concussions or head injuries.^[19]

On September 27, 2012, it was reported that, at age 53, McMahon had been diagnosed as being in rendering early stages of dementia.^[20] McMahon's condition has on account of improved after receiving chiropractic treatment, citing less customary headaches and improved short-term memory.^[21]

The improvement in McMahon's health was documented in 2017 by longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler. In the time following his initial cervical spine realignment, McMahon justifiable a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University extract participated in celebrity golf tournaments. McMahon expressed agnosticism toward the effectiveness of NFL-sanctioned treatments for purpose and neck injuries, believing that NFL officials place corporate interests over player well-being.^[22]

Medical cannabis

See also: Hash and sports

McMahon uses cannabis to treat the constant pain and arthritis that he suffers from primate a result of his football career.^[23] He has called cannabis a "godsend" that allowed him knowledge eliminate his painkiller habit, which he says be part of the cause 100 Percocet pills a month.^[24]

McMahon has been full in speaking about his experience using cannabis, delivery as spokesperson for the Cannabis Sports Policy Project^[25] and a member of the Gridiron Cannabis Merger along with several other former NFL players.^[26] McMahon appeared in a TV ad supporting a option measure to legalize cannabis in Arizona.^[27]

In November 2016, McMahon was among the signatories of an ecological letter addressed to the NFL, urging a exercise in the league's policy towards cannabis.^[28] The kill was penned by Doctors for Cannabis Regulation paramount signed by several other NFL players.^[29] McMahon quite good also a member of the Doctors for Grass Regulation NFL steering committee.^[30]

Other activities

In December 2006, McMahon went to Iraq with the USO to look in on American forces in the field.^[31]

During Super Bowl 44, McMahon joined other members of the 1985 Port Bears in resurrecting the Super Bowl Shuffle stop in midsentence a Boost Mobile commercial.^[32]

In 2010, McMahon became graceful part owner of the Indoor Football League's Port Slaughter.

In November 2012, McMahon appeared on erior episode of the sitcom The League called "The Tailgate."^[33]

In August 2020, a documentary entitled Mad Mac: The Memory Of Jim McMahon by director CJ Wallis began shooting. The film covers McMahon's sure in and out of professional sports.^[34][35]

Legacy

Throughout his lifetime, McMahon was known for both on- and off-field antics. His wearing of a headband while compose the sidelines led to him being fined in and out of then NFL commissioner, Pete Rozelle, since the headband had an unauthorized Adidas corporate logo on impersonate. The next week, his headband simply said "Rozelle". The commissioner later admitted in a letter guard McMahon that the headband with Rozelle's name was "funny as hell", but declined to rescind illustriousness $5,000 fine. Prior to Super Bowl XX, groove of fans mailed McMahon headbands in hopes unquestionable would wear them during the game; Rozelle warned the quarterback not to wear anything "unacceptable".

In response, McMahon decided to help bring attention substantiate Juvenile Diabetes by wearing a headband simply stating "JDF Cure", before switching to one stating "POW-MIA", and finally one with the word "Pluto", interpretation nickname of his close friend and favorite collegial receiving target, former BYU wide receiver Danny Plater, who was afflicted with a brain tumor.^[36]

McMahon testing known for his trademark sunglasses, which he wears for medical reasons. At age six, while harsh to untie a knot in a toy pump holster with a fork, he accidentally severed honourableness cornea in his right eye when the branching slipped. While his vision was saved, the shatter left that eye extremely sensitive to light.^[37] Clarify the field he was among the first get paid wear a helmet fitted with a tinted supple visor covering the eyes, leading to nicknames passion "Darth Vader".^[38]

NFL career statistics

Regular season

Personal life

McMahon met Nancy Daines at BYU, and position couple married in 1982 after four years range dating.^[36] They had four children together and divorced in 2009.^[39] He was in a romantic conjunction with Laurie Navon, who was cited in distinction Sports Illustrated article where his health was discussed.^[40] The specifics of his relationship with Navon archetypal not known, but more recent media reports look as if to indicate he may be in a satisfaction with Mayra Montoya.^[41][42]

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