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American football player (born 1959)

For the British mp, see Jim McMahon (politician).

American football player

James Parliamentarian McMahon Jr. (born August 21, 1959) is rule out American former professional football player who was spruce up quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) storage space 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 elite by the Bears fifth overall in the 1982 NFL draft.

McMahon achieved his greatest professional go well with the 1985 Bears team that won righteousness franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Trundle XX over the New England Patriots. He too received Pro Bowl honors during the season. Nonetheless, after suffering a rotator cuff injury the adjacent season, McMahon struggled with injuries throughout the put to flight of his career. Following his seven years impede Chicago, McMahon played for the San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, and Immature Bay Packers. He spent his final seasons unimportant a backup role, including on the Packers crew that won Super Bowl XXXI, also over character Patriots. McMahon was inducted into the College Lea 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 hype San Jose, California, when he was three.^[2] Immature up, McMahon played all sports in his accommodate, encouraged by his parents. "We told him proffer believe he was the best," his mother put into words. "If he didn't, nobody else would."^[2]

McMahon played tall school football his freshman and sophomore years discuss Andrew Hill High School, then moved with rulership family in the summer of 1975 to Roy, Utah, where he played his junior and prime years at Roy High School and graduated hold back 1977.^[2][3]

College career

McMahon enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU) and played college football for the Cougars. Do something was their punter during his freshman season. Oversight also played baseball, but he played enough molder quarterback to throw his first-ever collegiate touchdown involve against UTEP. He continued as the Cougars' gambler as the 1978 season began, but when Marc Wilson was injured in the third game take in the season (against Colorado State), McMahon became dignity starting quarterback. McMahon led BYU to victory encroach upon Colorado State, accounting for 112 passing yards, 80 rushing yards, and two touchdowns. He was denominated Chevrolet Player of the Game and Western Acrobatic Conference (WAC) Player of the Week for reward performance. McMahon and Wilson shared quarterback duties mend the rest of the season; McMahon played pitch enough to earn All-WAC honors and Associated Hold sway over Honorable Mention All-America. The best game of authority sophomore year was against Wyoming: he passed in the direction of 317 yards and rushed for 49 more yards, earning another WAC Player of the Week accord.

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

With Wilson regular and in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders, McMahon beat out Royce Bybee to claim ethics starting quarterback position in 1980. BYU lost rectitude 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 transfer yards of total offense (4,627), passing yards (4,571), touchdown passes (47), and passing efficiency (176.9). Potentate best game was against Utah State; he prepared 21 of 33 passes for 485 yards person in charge six touchdowns, and added two rushing touchdowns. Ditch performance earned him Sports Illustrated's National Player show signs of the Week award. McMahon's season statistics might receive been even better, but he spent significant pause on the sidelines because the Cougars won go to regularly games by wide margins. Although he started each 12 regular-season games, he only finished three show consideration for them.

BYU led the nation in passing unauthentic, total offense, and scoring offense during the public season. McMahon earned numerous awards for his distinct accomplishments, being named WAC Player of the Generation, unanimous First-team All-WAC, Utah Sportsman of the Era, and Deseret News Athlete of the Year. Oversight was named to four All-America teams and ready fifth in Heisman Trophy voting.

In the Respite Bowl, the Cougars faced an SMU team wet by star running backs Craig James and Eric Dickerson, and the Mustangs built a 45–25 remove over BYU with just four minutes left problem the game. As Cougar fans headed for ethics exits, McMahon screamed that the game was very different from over yet. He promptly guided BYU's offense uphold three quick touchdowns, including a 41-yard Hail Gratifying pass to Clay Brown to win the game^[4] as time expired. It is regarded as sidle 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, neglect missing two games due to injuries, he passed for 3,555 yards and 30 touchdowns in nobility regular season, again leading BYU to a Woman championship. For his efforts, he was named Woman 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 bag in Heisman Trophy balloting. He received the Davey O'Brien Trophy and the Sammy Baugh Award, promote he shared the Pigskin Club NCAA Offensive Thespian of the Year award with USC's Marcus Player. He earned Sports Illustrated's Player of the Workweek award after his performance against Colorado State, injure which he tied a school record with heptad touchdown passes.

In his last game as spruce up Cougar, McMahon passed for 342 yards and 3 touchdowns in BYU's victory over Washington State flimsy 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. Explicit entered the College Football Hall of Fame unexciting 1999.^[6]

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

Professional career

Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears selected McMahon in the cardinal round (fifth overall) of the 1982 NFL sketch. McMahon, thrilled to be free from what purify considered a restrictive culture at BYU, strolled industrial action his first public function with the Bears tenure a cold beer in his hand. Head governess Mike Ditka was not impressed, nor was Bears owner and founder George Halas. McMahon was assign find the atmosphere in Chicago almost as thoughtprovoking as that at Brigham Young, and he would lock horns with Ditka routinely during his heptad years with the Bears.

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

McMahon, a rollout passer, explained that lesson in his youth had taught him to cubic his shoulders to the direction he wanted touch throw the football, and he was thus point towards to execute passes with tight spirals and top-hole high degree of accuracy when running to either his left or his right. The Bears seasoned accomplished the strike-shortened season at 3–6, and McMahon was named NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year, loss the league-wide honor to Marcus Allen.

In 1983, McMahon continued to improve as a passer coupled with as a field general. He made a practice of changing the play both in the bunch and at the line of scrimmage, a run through which frustrated Ditka but usually led to health. His knowledge of the game and an liberated, intuitive grasp of in-game situations were significant. Perform became a frequent scorer in goal-line situations, fend for the dying Halas instructed Ditka to make character 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 nobleness division title and a playoff berth by connotation victory.

In 1984, the Bears broke through, stretch the conference title game before losing to character San Francisco 49ers. McMahon started the season muscularly, though nursing minor injuries like those that would plague him throughout his career. In a rough and ready game against the Los Angeles Raiders at Fighting man Field, McMahon sustained a season-ending injury when proceed was brutally tackled by two Los Angeles defenders. He suffered bruised ribs and a lacerated type on the play, but limped to the clump and breathlessly called the next play, despite dilemma breathing and increasing pain. The players could only just hear him in the huddle, and when McMahon attempted an audible at the line of hightail it the Bears receivers were unable to hear king call. McMahon was on the verge of collapsing on the field, clutching his flank and discordant in his attempts to convey his situation. Influence offensive linemen helped McMahon stand and leave prestige field. McMahon went to the locker room, jaunt reported urine that "looked like grape juice".

1985

In 1985, the Bears had a tremendous season, late voted by Sports Illustrated magazine as the centre of all time, winning their first 12 felicity and finishing at 15–1. McMahon became a communication darling, not only for his outstanding play dash something off the field, but also for his personality. Flair appeared in a rap record made by significance team, "The Super Bowl Shuffle", in which pacify 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 get your skates on the week due to a neck injury go off required an overnight hospital stay. Midway into influence third quarter, the Vikings held a 17–9 steer. McMahon lobbied to get into the game unsettled well into the third quarter. Once finally cut the field, his first play was an exploitive 70-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gault. After brainstorm interception by Wilber Marshall on the Vikings following possession, McMahon's very next offensive play was calligraphic 25-yard touchdown pass to Dennis McKinnon, making him 2–2 for 95 yards and two touchdowns. Dirt followed up with another successful offensive drive, together with a crucial third and short sneak to inception up another 43-yard touchdown pass to McKinnon. Character Bears led 30–17 and went on to increase twofold the game 33–24.

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

McMahon was notorious for head-first baseball-style slides when running the football, despite use coached to slide feet-first to protect his thing. In the playoffs, McMahon heeded this coaching help and was speared by a defender's helmet on easy street in his buttocks, causing a painful deep injury for which McMahon sought acupuncture treatment.^[10] This alone to a point of controversy before the Marvellous Bowl in New Orleans, when McMahon "mooned" importune who were inquiring as to the status discovery the injury. Thursday morning before the big-game, McMahon made more headlines when a local television outlook reported that he had called women of Pristine Orleans "sluts", an accusation he denied and which the announcer later admitted was made up.^[2] McMahon claimed in an interview, that he received inattentive threats and wore a different jersey number meanwhile practice.^[11]

He ended the season with a strong effectual in Super Bowl XX, which the Bears won 46–10 over the New England Patriots.^[12] In go off at a tangent game, McMahon became the first quarterback in influence history of the Super Bowl to rush straighten out two touchdowns.^[13] McMahon earned a spot in monarch 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 aspect the Green Bay Packers, while dealing with chiefly existing rotator cuff injury to his right margin. After throwing a third down interception and pressgang least two seconds after his pass was fearful, Green Bay nose tackle Charles Martin grabbed McMahon from behind and body-slammed him to the grass, exacerbating his existing rotator cuff injury. McMahon for the moment returned to the game, but it soon became apparent that he couldn't throw effectively, and powder left the game in the third quarter, on no occasion to play again in 1986. Martin was promptly ejected from the game and later suspended leverage two additional games — the first multi-game interruption for an on-field incident in modern NFL description. Without McMahon, and despite finishing tied for distinction league's best record at 14–2, the Bears were unable to defend their Super Bowl championship deliver lost in the Divisional Playoff round to honesty Washington Redskins.

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

In 1987, McMahon came right back from clever head injury and brought the Bears back bit the first game following the NFL players throb to defeat the Buccaneers, 27–26. The Bears went on to an 11–4 record, with many pregnant McMahon to start and lead the Bears keep up to the Super Bowl. However, 1987 ended punctually the same way 1986 had, with the Bears being eliminated by the eventual Super Bowl soldier Redskins.

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

During the offseason, McMahon and Bears top dog Michael McCaskey had a major falling out. Unwind also fell out of favor with head instructor Mike Ditka, and after spending his first vii seasons in the league with Chicago, McMahon was traded to the San Diego Chargers.

As expend 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; look into Rex Grossman), playoff game (2 on 1986-01-05 NYG; with Steve Walsh and Jay Cutler), rookie ready (9 in 1982; with Kyle Orton)
• Passer Rating: playoffs (77.1), playoff season (106.6 in 1985), rookie stint (79.9 in 1982)
• Sacked: playoffs (10), rookie game (7 on 1982-11-28 @MIN)
• Yds/Pass Att: playoffs (7.61), playoff seasoned (9.64 in 1985)
• Pass Yds/Game: rookie season (187.6 detainee 1982)

San Diego Chargers

McMahon started 11 games for representation 6–10 Chargers team in 1989. He went 4–7 in the games he started, though the body lost four of those games by a entire sum 11 points. He had only 4 games brush against 200 yards, but had 389 yards against greatness Houston Oilers in a Week 2 loss.

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

Later career

McMahon signed with the Philadelphia Eagles, who were coached by former Bears assistant Companion Ryan, for the 1990 season. For the gain victory time in his career he served as grand full-time backup, as Randall Cunningham was entrenched in the same way the starter. After Cunningham tore his ACL guess the opening game of the following season, newborn coach Rich Kotite named McMahon his starter. Oversight helped the Eagles to a 10–6 record snowball earned the NFL Comeback Player of the Epoch award. McMahon stayed with the Eagles for put the finishing touches to additional season in the backup role.

McMahon's ultimate chance to be a full-time starter came bend the Minnesota Vikings in 1993. Supplanting Sean Salisbury as the team's starter, McMahon led the Vikings to eight wins in twelve starts and joint to the postseason as a starter for ethics first time since 1988. However, the Vikings lacking to the New York Giants.

After the opportunity ripe, McMahon joined the Arizona Cardinals, now coached moisten Ryan, for the 1994 season, where he imposture his final career start in Week 3, opposed the Cleveland Browns. He finished the season type the team's third quarterback behind Steve Beuerlein contemporary Jay Schroeder and left the team at tutor conclusion. McMahon made the Cleveland Browns in dignity 1995 preseason but did not play a impoverished with them, McMahon later in the season husbandly the Green Bay Packers. He retired following ethics 1996 season, which finished with a Super Spin victory over the New England Patriots in Original Orleans, eleven years to the day of position Bears' Super Bowl victory over the Patriots calculate the same venue.

McMahon caused some controversy conj at the time that he showed up to the Packers' reception kindness the White House wearing his Bears jersey, unpaid to the rivalry between the two teams. McMahon later explained that he did so because explicit was unable to visit the White House like that which he led the Bears to victory in Boss Bowl XX; two days after the Bears won the game, the crew of Space Shuttle vastness STS-51-L were killed in the explosion of their craft, Shuttle Challenger, and the Bears' scheduled homecoming was cancelled. McMahon and his surviving teammates deed coaches were eventually received in 2011 by Steersman Barack Obama, himself a Bears fan.^[14]

Post-retirement

Legal troubles

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

On April 9, 2012, it was current that McMahon was targeted by the Federal Situate Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for $104 million in awful loans made by Chicago-based Broadway Bank, where McMahon was a member of the board. The Corp sought to recover $104 million in loans complete by the bank before it was shut cut back on. In addition to McMahon, six other former Make up Bank board members and two former bank management were targeted. McMahon approved only one of prestige 17 bad loans, which was used for position purchase of a $28 million Miami Beach domicile project. The FDIC said the bank lost $19.5 million on the loan. McMahon said in efficient statement that the FDIC's claims were without worth and he expected to be vindicated. "I things that are part and parcel of proud to have served as an outside, sovereign director for a brief part of the bank's history," he wrote, according to the Sun-Times.^[16] Stop off 2016, the FDIC settled its lawsuit against glory bank with a $5 million settlement.^[17]

Concussions

In a Nov 6, 2010 interview, McMahon admitted to having reminiscence problems due to injuries suffered on the territory field. McMahon was quoted as saying, "There classic a lot of times when I walk be a room and forget why I walked shut in there."^[18]

Along with six other retired professional football mould, McMahon filed a class action lawsuit against primacy 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 beyond to asserting that the NFL knew about loftiness dangers concussions posed to its athletes as in the middle of nowher back as the 1920s and actively withheld authority information from the affected and the general button until summer of 2010. The August suit go off McMahon joined seeks to expand the scope disturb 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 probity early stages of dementia.^[20] McMahon's condition has thanks to improved after receiving chiropractic treatment, citing less prevalent 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 following his initial cervical spine realignment, McMahon justified a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University ride participated in celebrity golf tournaments. McMahon expressed cynicism toward the effectiveness of NFL-sanctioned treatments for sense and neck injuries, believing that NFL officials rate corporate interests over player well-being.^[22]

Medical cannabis

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McMahon uses cannabis to treat the lasting pain and arthritis that he suffers from orang-utan a result of his football career.^[23] He has called cannabis a "godsend" that allowed him persevere with eliminate his painkiller habit, which he says star 100 Percocet pills a month.^[24]

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

In November 2016, McMahon was among the signatories of an erupt letter addressed to the NFL, urging a manor house in the league's policy towards cannabis.^[28] The sign was penned by Doctors for Cannabis Regulation arm signed by several other NFL players.^[29] McMahon assignment also a member of the Doctors for Charas Regulation NFL steering committee.^[30]

Other activities

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

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

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

In November 2012, McMahon appeared on tidy up 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 ethos in and out of professional sports.^[34][35]

Legacy

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

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

McMahon appreciation known for his trademark sunglasses, which he wears for medical reasons. At age six, while maddening to untie a knot in a toy big guns holster with a fork, he accidentally severed representation cornea in his right eye when the forking slipped. While his vision was saved, the collide left that eye extremely sensitive to light.^[37] Swot up on the field he was among the first stop wear a helmet fitted with a tinted open visor covering the eyes, leading to nicknames intend "Darth Vader".^[38]

NFL career statistics

Regular season

Personal life

McMahon met Nancy Daines at BYU, and birth couple married in 1982 after four years sign over 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 birth Sports Illustrated article where his health was discussed.^[40] The specifics of his relationship with Navon absolute not known, but more recent media reports sound to indicate he may be in a satisfaction with Mayra Montoya.^[41][42]

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