Tonight's Super Bowl trivia question(s):
by G.K.Chesterton (2013-01-30 22:34:21)
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Only six (6) NFL Hall of Fame inductees played in and won their final game at the Super Bowl. Can you name them?

Bonus: What retired Notre Dame athlete could possibly join this elite club in the next 12 months?

Double bonus: Who is the only coach to retire after winning the Super Bowl?

The answers can be found at the WSJ article below.

Guesses
by themanwhowouldbeking  (2013-01-31 10:50:07)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Elway

...and that's all I've got.
Elway is correct
by tf86  (2013-01-31 13:12:28)     Delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I'm gonna take a wild stab and go with Bart Starr as one of the others. Don't think I can come up with any others, at least not without sitting down and thinking long and hard about it.
I know the bonus question! I think.
by 1NDGal  (2013-01-30 23:40:27)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

The Bus!
Let me comment on the other ND alum on that list.
by G.K.Chesterton  (2013-01-31 01:57:42)     Delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Paul Hornung didn't retire after Super Bowl I. Hornung actually signed on the following season with the Saints, but had to retire during training camp because of a neck injury, which is the same reason he didn't play in Super Bowl I.

I only really knew the Elway answer (who doesn't) and forgot about Hornung never actually playing in the 1968 season.

That has to be right, and I also have the Double Bonus
by ShermanOaksND  (2013-01-31 00:13:42)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Bill Walsh. (Vince Lombardi, Bill Parcells, Jimmy Johnson and Dick Vermeil each resigned after winning Super Bowls, but each later returned to coaching -- in Parcells's case, three times.)
My (incorrect) guess would have been Chuck Noll. *
by G.K.Chesterton  (2013-01-31 01:59:23)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Noll retired more than a decade after his last Super Bowl *
by ShermanOaksND  (2013-02-03 17:39:00)     Delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Technically Bill Walsh returned to "coaching"
by Pat85  (2013-01-31 00:16:29)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

but not in the NFL
Correct
by ShermanOaksND  (2013-01-31 00:19:54)     Delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

And the WSJ does list Walsh as the answer. In fact, nobody has permanently retired from coaching, period, right after winning a Super Bowl.
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