National Football League Quarterback Challenge
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.
In Videogames
NFL-licensed NFL Quarterback Challenge, created by ProAppSports and produced by Adisoft Studios is currently available on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices. An officially NFL-licensed Quarterback Challenge appeared in 2 other different console video games. Both video game versions appeared in the same Quarterback Club series of games by Acclaim Entertainment. The Quarterback Challenge mode appeared in the first and last versions of the game series. The first was in the original Quarterback Club game released in 1994 on the Super NES and SEGA Genesis. The second and final appearance of the challenge was in NFL QB Club 2002, published in 2001 for the Sony PS2 and Nintendo GameCube. The first version was a sprite-based 2D game, while the later version was fully 3D. Both of these games and all games in this series were developed by Iguana Entertainment in Austin, TX. The 1994 SNES/Genesis version was produced by Russell Byrd. The 2001 PS2/GameCube version was produced by Charles Normann.
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.
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.
Past winners
- 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