National Football League Quarterback Challenge
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The NFL's Quarterback Challenge was an annual competition of National Football League quarterbacks, sponsored in part by DirecTV, produced by NFL, PLAYERS INC and NFL QB Greats. The first NFL Quarterback Challenge took place in 1990. The event were previously sponsored by 989 Sports and in 2005 by Electronic Arts EA Sports. wikipedia
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[edit] Michael Vick controversy
The competition, which was filmed May 19, 2007 at Cayman International School, was scheduled to air August 3, 2007 on ESPN. ESPN cancelled the program due to the NFL executives sending a notice regarding Michael Vick. During the summer, Vick was arrested due to his involvement of dogfighting competitions. The editing and time constraints needed to delete Michael Vick's appearance from the Quarterback Challenge led to the airing being cancelled.
[edit] Discontinued
On November 2007 NFL cancelled Quarterback Challenge. Cayman Islands Tourism confirmed on March 8, 2008 that NFL officially discontinued the competition indefinitely[1]. NFL breached the three year contract it had with Cayman Islands. NFL is examining competition programming within their broadcast partners.
[edit] Winners of the competition are
- 2007 Josh McCown
- 2006 Not held
- 2005 Jake Delhomme
- 2004 Matt Hasselbeck
- 2003 Brad Johnson
- 2002 Jeff Garcia
- 2001 Trent Dilfer
- 2000 Jake Plummer
- 1999 Jake Plummer
- 1998 Jim Harbaugh
- 1997 Vinny Testaverde
- 1996 Neil O'Donnell
- 1995 Randall Cunningham
- 1994 Randall Cunningham
- 1993 Jeff Hostetler
- 1992 Dan Marino
- 1991 Dan Marino
- 1990 Ken O'Brien
