Lynn Dickey

Clifford Lynn Dickey (born October 19, 1949) is a former American football quarterback. He played for the Houston Oilers and the Green Bay Packers.

Lynn Dickey
Dickey (right) signing autographs
with center Larry McCarren in 2007
No. 10, 12
Position:Quarterback
Personal information
Born: (1949-10-19) October 19, 1949
Paola, Kansas
Career information
High school:Osawatomie
(Osawatomie, Kansas)
College:Kansas State
NFL Draft:1971 / Round: 3 / Pick: 56
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
TD–INT:141–179
Yards:23,322
Passer rating:70.9
Player stats at NFL.com

High school

Born in Paola, Kansas, and raised in Osawatomie, Kansas, southwest of Kansas City, Dickey led Osawatomie High School to a state championship and graduated in 1967. It’s football stadium is named after him, and his number "10" was retired by the school in January 1971.[1]

College career

Dickey was recruited to Kansas State University. Following his senior season in 1970, Dickey finished tenth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy and was named MVP of the North–South Shrine Game.[2] His 6,208 career passing yards was the record at Kansas State for 38 years, until passed by Josh Freeman in 2008.

Professional career

Houston Oilers

Dickey was selected in the third round of the 1971 NFL draft, 56th overall, by the Houston Oilers,[3] where he played four seasons, splitting time with fellow 1971 draft pick Dan Pastorini (third overall).[4] He and Pastorini were in competition for the starting quarterback role in 1972, and Dickey was having a good preseason. However, he suffered the first in a long line of serious injuries throughout his career, a dislocated and broken hip in the fourth preseason game, which cost him the rest of the year.[5] Dickey started ten games with the Oilers, winning two overall, including Houston's lone win in the 1973 season.[6]

Green Bay Packers

In 1976 he was traded to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for John Hadl.[7] His Packers career got off to a rocky start. Dickey suffered a broken leg in 1977, causing him to miss two full calendar years. But by 1980 he was back as the starter. Dickey led the Packers to the 16-team playoffs in the strike-shortened 1982 season. The Packers won the opening round after Dickey went 19 of 26 (73%) for 286 yards with 4 touchdowns and no interceptions in a 41–16 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals.[8] Green Bay was eliminated the following week by the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round after Dickey went 24 of 37 for 274 yards with 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions as the team fell 37–26.[9]

Perhaps the high point of Dickey's NFL career came in 1983 when he powered the Packers' offense to a then-team record 429 points.[10][11] His 4,458 yards that season served as the team record until being surpassed by Aaron Rodgers in 2011,[12] and threw a career-best 32 touchdowns, the most in the NFL in 1983.[13] Dickey was named second-team All-NFC behind Joe Theismann. Dickey's Packers had beaten Theismann's Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins in a thrilling Monday Night Football game earlier that season (Washington kicker Mark Moseley missed a field goal in the closing seconds, preserving the Packers' 48–47 win).[14] The game is included in NFL Network's program "Top Ten Quarterback Duels".

Dickey retired from professional football prior to the 1986 season, after he was waived late in training camp.[15][16][17] He holds Packers records for highest completion percentage in a game with a minimum of 20 attempts (19-21, 90.48%, versus New Orleans on December 13, 1981).[18] His record for most passing yards in a 1980 game (418 versus Tampa Bay on October 12) was broken by Matt Flynn on January 1, 2012 with 480 yards. (Aaron Rodgers had 422 in a playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals); and highest average gain in a season (9.21 yards per attempt in 1983[19]). The latter is an NFL single-season record for quarterbacks with 400 or more attempts.

Personal life

After retiring from football, Dickey relocated to the greater Kansas City area where he opened a football-themed restaurant. Dickey has three grown daughters; Natalie, Meredith, and Elizabeth and resides in Leawood, Kansas. He then worked for the popular Kansas City AM station Sports Radio 810 on the show "Crunch Time", airing at 9:00 a.m. He now works at Serve You Rx, a pharmacy benefit management company home based in Milwaukee.

Honors

In 1996, when the Big Eight expanded to the Big 12 Conference, the Associated Press named Dickey as the All-Time Big Eight Quarterback. Kansas State University has retired the No. 11 to jointly honor Dickey and his successor at KSU, Steve Grogan. It is the only number retired by Kansas State's football program.

Dickey is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.

References
  1. "Osawatamie High to retire Dickey's old prep number". Lawrence Journal-World. Kansas. Associated Press. January 28, 1971. p. 10.
  2. Mizell, Hubert (December 27, 1970). "Dickey leads North to 28-7 Shrine win". Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. p. 18.
  3. "Kansas State passing ace signs Houston Oiler pact". Victoria Advocate. Texas. Associated Press. February 25, 1971. p. 2B.
  4. 1971, 1973-75
  5. "Houston Wins, But Loses Lynn Dickey". The Paris News. Paris, Texas. Associated Press. August 25, 1972. p. 8.
  6. The Oilers went 1–13 in 1973, Pro-Football-Reference.com: Lynn Dickey
  7. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4IA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Vo0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6860,469255&hl=en
  8. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198301080gnb.htm
  9. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198301160dal.htm
  10. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/gnb/1983.htm
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 4, 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/8439/aaron-rodgers
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 8, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198310170gnb.htm
  15. Lea, Bud (September 2, 1986). "Pack waives Dickey, Coffman". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
  16. Van Sickle, Gary (September 2, 1986). "Dickey waves goodby again". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1C.
  17. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DickLy00.htm?redir
  18. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198112130nor.htm
  19. http://prod.static.packers.clubs.nfl.com/assets/docs/media-guide/2011packers_337-592.pdf
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