Sammy Baugh is a fascinating guy.
As a rookie multi-talent, QB, DB, and punter, he won the NFL Championship in 1937.
In 1941, he starred in an anti-Nazi infowar movie serial called King of the Texas Rangers. Fighting the Fifth Column.
In Michael Wilbon's homage to Baugh upon Slingin Sammy's passing in 2008, Steve Sabol is cited as noting Robert Duvall based his Lonesome Dove character Gus McRae in part on Sammy Baugh with whom he had met while researching the part.
Maybe King of the Texas Rangers was what inspired Duvall to consult Sammy as well as to get the flavor of the Texan Accent.
In football jargon, Duvall was obsessed with game film from an acting standpoint.
Anyway, you can stream King of the Texas Rangers on YouTube at Atomic Age Pictures.
I stumbled on all this trying to figure out what precedents Jayden Daniels might set this year and I think the best he can do is to win the Super Bowl as a Rookie, which no one has done.
Determining if no one had won an NFL CHAMPIONSHIP as a Rookie QB was easier for me being an amateur Redskin historian and knowing about Sammy Baugh. BUT, if he was the only one or the FIRST seems to be a research project worthy of a grant simply because recordkeeping during the early era of Pro Football was virtually nonexistent.
However, Skins fans know winning the league title as a Rookie for Jayden wouldn't even be a team first.
Well.
Only the Super Bowl Era counts.
Right?
