What 3 IL HS QB's Played in the Super Bowl?
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Jimmy Garoppolo won 2 but I don't know if he got into the games?
David Edwards started in the Super Bowl for the Rams. Maybe they mean played QB in the Super Bowl? Randle El also played in the Big Game for the Steelers.
David Edwards path is wild... QB -> TE -> OT
I'll have to admit, I had to Google David Edwards.....was not familiar with him .
Yeah, not oft mentioned. He could go in the brothers thread with an asterisk for being a cousin of the other Edwards brothers at DGN.
As a Mustang I probably shouldnt even mention those north of 63rd St
Not sure they lead in IL, but Carmel Catholic owns (5) total SB championship rings aligned to former alum.
Mind you, (4) from a single player (Steel Curtain’s Safety). This HAS to be the record.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Mind you, (4) from a single player (Steel Curtain’s Safety). This HAS to be the record.
Mike Wagner - Wikipedia
Jeff Zgonina - Wikipedia
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If you hadn't mentioned Carmel, AI would have overlooked it.
Done — I updated the statewide tally and Carmels’s total is now included.
Done — I updated the statewide tally and Carmels’s total is now included.
Updated ranking (confirmed Super Bowl wins by alumni — best-effort, sourced)
- Carmel Catholic (Mundelein) — 5 confirmed rings
- Lincoln-Way East (Frankfort) — 3 confirmed rings
- Nick Allegretti — 3× Super Bowl champion (Kansas City Chiefs: LIV, LVII, LVIII). (Wikipedia)
- Taft HS (Chicago) — 2 confirmed rings
- Jim Grabowski — 2× Super Bowl champion (Green Bay Packers — Super Bowls I & II era). (Wikipedia)
- Proviso East (Maywood) — 2 confirmed rings
- Ray Nitschke — 2× Super Bowl champion (Green Bay Packers — first two Super Bowls). (Wikipedia)
- Mount Carmel (Chicago) — 1 confirmed ring
- Simeon Rice — 1× Super Bowl champion (Tampa Bay Buccaneers: XXXVII). (Wikipedia)
Notes & caveats
- This is a best-effort, sourced tally of confirmed Super Bowl wins (rings) by alumni and attributes rings to the high school each player attended in their bios. Each school’s total equals the sum of its listed alumni’s ring counts.
- There may be additional Illinois high schools with ring-winning alumni not yet captured here; some older or less-documented players can be missed by straightforward searches.
- If you want a complete sweep (every Illinois high-school alumnus with at least one Super Bowl ring, with sources and a downloadable spreadsheet), I can run a full extraction and produce a CSV/XLSX with names, schools, teams, Super Bowl numbers, years, and citations. Want me to do that?
Off the top of my head JCA has two:
Tom Thayer - Bears 1986
Mike Alstott - Buccaneers 2002
Tom Thayer - Bears 1986
Mike Alstott - Buccaneers 2002
Thornton has 2 with ARE. Thought theyd have more with Tai Streets, Napoleon Harris, and Tim Jamison
You really need to fact check AI or stop using it. Thayer, Moorehead, and Fencik were on the '85 Bears and went to JCA, Evanston, and Barrington. Alstott won one. Just last year Jake Elliot from the Eagles. Kelvin Hayden had the pick 6 against the Bears and went to Hubbard. Rashard Mendenhall has a win with the Steelers and went to Niles West. Howard Griffith from MC has 2 wins with the Broncos.
You're so hot and bothered by AI. I'm not posting it as the end all be all. It's a starting point, that's why I mention it's from AI.
I love AI and use it daily. All the players I listed came from AI. There were some I left out that also weren't on your list that I wasn't 100% sure on and didn't feel like fact checking, like Preston Pearson who played in 5 and won 2 who went to Freeport.
Sure seems like you meant it to be a complete list.
The "Done" part was a straight copy from Chat's response. You really should have fact-checked that before responding.
I do appreciate that you skipped over this part though:
I do appreciate that you skipped over this part though:
- This is a best-effort, sourced tally of confirmed Super Bowl wins (rings) by alumni and attributes rings to the high school each player attended in their bios. Each school’s total equals the sum of its listed alumni’s ring counts.
- There may be additional Illinois high schools with ring-winning alumni not yet captured here; some older or less-documented players can be missed by straightforward searches.
Skipped over it because those weren't your words, just part of your copy and paste.
He won one with Green Bay. I'm not sure if he was on all 4 of the Bills teams that lost each Super Bowl from 1991-1994 but he is famous for chasing down Leon Lett and preventing a Pick 6 in one of their losses to Dallas.
Granite City's Hall of Fame linebacker Kevin Greene never won a Super Bowl as a player, appearing in Super Bowl XXX with the Pittsburgh Steelers. However, he earned a Super Bowl ring as the outside linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV (2011).
I played HS ball with Jeff Zgonina listed above (Carmel Catholic), and subsequently followed his college and NFL career.
When he was with the Steelers I absolutely loved watching their LB’s (includes Kevin Greene also listed above).
Kevin Greene (LOLB)
Greg Lloyd (ROLB)
Levon Kirkland (ILB)
Chad Brown (ILB)
A great LB crew!
When he was with the Steelers I absolutely loved watching their LB’s (includes Kevin Greene also listed above).
Kevin Greene (LOLB)
Greg Lloyd (ROLB)
Levon Kirkland (ILB)
Chad Brown (ILB)
A great LB crew!
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