Andre Ware
Andre Ware was born in Galveston, Texas, United States on July 31st, 1968 and is the Football Player. At the age of 55, Andre Ware biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Andre Ware (born July 31, 1968) is an American sports analyst and commentator as well as a former American football player.
He was named the 1989 Heisman Trophy winner as a quarterback for the University of Houston.
He was the first African American quarterback to be honoured with this award.
Ware was the first round pick (#7 overall) of the Detroit Lions in the 1990 NFL Draft (#7 overall).
In 2004, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
College career
Ware grew up in the Galveston, Texas area, aspiring to play football at the University of Texas. "I was going to Texas," he said. All they had to do was lie to me and tell me they were going to play quarterback once I got there. Thank goodness that they told me the truth [that] they were going to move me to defense. Ware, who graduated from Dickinson High School, went on to the University of Houston, where he received the Heisman Trophy in 1989, as well as the Davey O'Brien Award, which was given to the most outstanding college quarterback of the year. He threw for 4,699 yards, 46 touchdowns, and set 26 NCAA records in the span of 11 games, seven of which were during the fourth quarter. Many of the records (including the memorable 340 yards/5 TDs in the first quarter and 517 yards/6 TDs in the first half, which were both established on October 21, 1989) were due to the run and shoot offense, which his successor, David Klingler, also used to great effect. The Cougars finished the season 9-2 and ranked the nation's #1 team by the Associated Press, but they were on probation, making Ware the only quarterback to win the Heisman while playing for a team on probation. After losing his senior year, he declared for the NFL Draft, delaying his senior year.
Professional football career
As head coach Wayne Fontes overrode the team's scouting director's recommendation, who resigned the next day, Ware became the top draft pick of the Detroit Lions. Ware joined the Lions in 1989, teaming with Barry Sanders, the previous Heisman Trophy winner from 1988. Ware spent four years with Detroit, playing 14 games and starting six: Wayne Fonte insisted on starting the injured Rodney Peete and almost replacing Peete with Erik Kramer if Peete was injured or poorly. Fontes are generally only playing Ware when the Lions were out of the playoffs or already losing a game by a large margin. Ware's best stretch came late in the 1992 season, when the Lions were out of the playoffs: he won two out of three games. He appeared on the Los Angeles Raiders' roster in 1994 but was cut after several games. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, one of the NFL's two expansion teams this year. Ware's presence in Jacksonville as a former Heisman Trophy winner, fueled a lot of local excitement, but Ware was eventually cut from the team the week before the regular season began.
Despite a long football career, Ware did not play in the NFL. Although some have stated that Ware's coaches never gave him a fair chance to grow, others have found that he was unable to adjust to an offensive system other than the run-and-shoot offense at Houston.
Ware has played in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Rough Riders, the BC Lions, and the Toronto Argonauts (where he supported fellow Heisman winner Doug Flutie). He appeared with the Berlin Thunder, a German football Europe team, for five games.