On Super Bowl Sunday, here’s a few White Sox players who also dabbled in football:
Player (years with Sox)—Football details
*BO JACKSON (1991, 1993)—1987 Heisman Trophy winner … Football hobbyist for the Raiders from 1987-1990
*FRANK THOMAS (1990-2006)—Tight end at Auburn in 1988
*MOOSE SKOWRON (1964-1967)—Guard at Purdue in 1948 and 1949 where future Sox general manager Stu Holcomb was the coach and Hank Stram was an assistant
*CHARLIE BERRY (1932-1933)—End at Lafayette College and for the NFL’s Pottsville Maroons in 1925 and 1926 … Member of the College Football Hall-of-Fame
*FRANK GRUBE (1931-1933)—End and kicker for the NFL’s New York Yankees in 1928
*DEAN LOOK (1961)—All-American QB at Michigan State played one game for the AFL’s New York Titans in 1962
*PID PURDY (1926)—Back for the Green Bay Packers in 1926 and 1927 … At 145 pounds, he is the lightest player to ever throw a touchdown pass in the NFL
*EVAR SWANSON (1932-1934)—-End for the Chicago Cardinals in 1926 and 1927
*KEVAN SMITH (2016-2018)—Quartetback at Pitt where he was coached by Dave Wannstedt
*SCOTT CARROLL (2014-2016)—Quarterback at Missouri State after starting his career at Purdue stuck behind Kyle Orton
*DON BUFORD (1963-1967)—Halfback and defensive back at USC in the late 1950s. His football-playing self was background noise in The Godfather II
*TOM PACIOREK (1982-1986)—Defensive back at the University of Houston was a ninth-round pick of Don Shula’s Miami Dolphins in 1968.
*STEVE RENKO (1977)—Quarteback at Kansas lined up in the same backfield as Gale Sayers
*JOE BORCHARD (2002-2005)—Quarterback at Stanford once threw for 324 yards and five touchdowns against UCLA
*JOSH FIELDS (2006-2009)—Quarterback threw for a Cotton Bowl record 307 yards for Oklahoma State against Mississippi in 2004