The 0-1 Chicago Bears will play the 1-0 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium in a Week 2 matchup. Here’s what you need to know before kickoff (noon, FOX).
Meet the Bears’ history-making QB
Willie Thrower, 170-pound junior quarterback from New Kensington, Pa., directed the Michigan State eleven yesterday as it opened its season against Oregon State in East Lansing, Michigan, circa Sept. 1951.in the history books of one of professional football’s most storied franchises. A quarterback whose “name is synonymous with his skill as a player,” as the Pittsburgh Courier declared in 1953, Thrower was the first Black quarterback to play at a Big Ten school and in the modern NFL. He made his professional debut for the Chicago Bears on Oct. 18, 1953, with less than five minutes left in a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field — six years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
The game was Thrower’s lone NFL appearance after notable high school and college careers. Now, 70 years later and 21 years after his death, his family and historians want people to know his name —Demolition of Arlington International Racecourse continues as a possible site for a new stadium as the Bears decide on a stadium for the future.
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