Another year, another quarterback

By Jonathan Mohr  |   Friday, April 04, 2008  |  Comments( 0 )

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Brett Favre became the Green Bay Packers starter during the fourth game of the 1992 season and didn’t relinquish that role for the next 16 years. There is a whole generation of Packers fans that have never known another starting quarterback.

Meanwhile, an entire generation of Minnesota Vikings fans have witnessed 13 starters come and go during that time. It came as no surprise then that the team’s revolving-door approach to the position took another turn this week with the news that one of those players, Gus Frerotte, who played for the Vikings in 2003 and 2004, had agreed to sign with the squad once again.

Frerotte, will join current starter Tarvaris Jackson and Brooks Bollinger, who started one game for the Vikings in 2007, on the team’s roster. But most Vikings fans would be hard pressed to remember each of those other 10 starters during Favre’s tenure. Here’s a chronological look at who they were and an update on what they’re doing now.

Rich Gannon: Started 12 games for the Vikings in 1992 and finished the season with 16 touchdown passes and 16 interceptions. He was the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 2002 but threw five interceptions in the Super Bowl that year. Gannon retired in 2005 and now works as an analyst for CBS.

Sean Salisbury: Started four games for the Vikings in 1992, four in 1993 and one in 1994. He had 14 touchdown passes, nine interceptions and a completion percentage of 56.4 during his career with the Vikings. Salisbury retired in 1996 after playing for San Diego that year. He then began a television career that blossomed when he was hired by ESPN. But ESPN declined to renew his contract this February and he was recently said to have hired Creative Artists Agency, which also represents Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, to represent him.

Jim McMahon: Started 12 games for the Vikings in 1993 and threw for 1,968 yards with nine touchdowns and eight interceptions. McMahon retired in 1997 and has worked as a restaurant owner and motivational speaker. In 2006 he traveled with the USO to visit U.S. troops in Iraq. He lives with his wife of more than 25 years in Northbrook, Ill. The couple has four children.

Warren Moon: Started 39 games for the Vikings during his three year stint with the team - 15 in 1994, 16 in 1995 and 8 in 1996. Moon threw for more than 10,000 yards during that time with a 60.7 completion percentage and 58 touchdowns. He retired in the year 2000 and currently works as a broadcaster for the Seattle Seahawks.

Brad Johnson: Started 46 games for the Vikings in the seven years he spent with the team – 1994 (0), 1995 (0), 1996 (8), 1997 (13), 1998 (2), 2005 (9) 2006 (14). Johnson threw for 11,098 yards and 65 touchdowns during his Vikings career. His quarterback rating was 82.5 during that span. Johnson is still in the NFL, having signed a three-year deal with Dallas in 2007.

Randall Cunningham: Started three games for the Vikings in 1997, 14 in 1998 and six in 1999. Cunningham enjoyed the highest quarterback rating of his career (94.2) during his years with Minnesota. He threw 48 touchdowns and 23 interceptions in his Vikings career. Cunningham retired in 2002, returned to UNLV for his college degree, became an ordained minister and founded a Las Vegas church called Remnant Ministries in 2004.

Jeff George: Started 10 games for the Vikings in 1999 throwing 23 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. George last threw a pass in the NFL in 2001 but signed with Oakland in 2006 before being released five days later.

Todd Bouman: Started three games for the Vikings in 2001 and had a quarterback rating of 98.3 that season with the team. Bouman re-signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars in February after joining the team in 2007 but never playing in a game.

Spergon Wynn: Started two games for the Vikings in 2001, throwing one touchdown pass and six interceptions. Wynn is currently a member of the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts.

Daunte Culpepper: Started all 16 regular-season games for the Vikings in three different seasons (2000, 2002 and 2004) while starting 11 in 2001 and 14 in 2003. Culpepper started the final seven games of his Vikings career in 2005 before going down with a knee injury. His quarterback rating during his Minnesota career was 89.9. He threw for 20,162 yards and 142 touchdowns, with 94 interceptions. Culpepper played for the Raiders in 2007, starting six games, and is currently a free agent.
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About Jonathan Mohr

A lifelong Vikings fan, I live in the Twin Cities area (about a mile from Winter Park) and work as an editor at a boating magazine. As with all long-suffering Vikings fans, I patiently look forward to the day when Minnesota finally breaks through and wins a Super Bowl. Until then I eat my...
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