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Thomas Raymond Flores (born March 21, 1937) is an American former professional football player in the American Football League (AFL) and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a quarterback for nine seasons in the AFL, primarily with the Oakland Raiders.
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Thomas Raymond “Tom” Flores was born in Sanger, CA on March 21, 1937. According to Flores’ Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement speechin 2021, his father left Mexico as a 12-year-old boy and crossed north of the border to California’s Central Valley. He eventually became a sharecropper to help make ends meet. Tom Flores told Pacific.edu in 2021th...
Tom Flores had a rough start to his pro football career. He couldn’t find any takers after he graduated from the College of the Pacific in 1958. The Canadian Football League’s (CFL) Calgary Stampeders released him that same year. Flores returned to the States where he played for a semi-pro football squad called the Bakersfield Spoilers. Flores trie...
After Tom Flores hung up his cleats and earned a Super Bowl ring following the 1969 AFL season, he went on a two-year hiatus from the gridiron. According to Pacific.edu, Flores missed the game quite a lot during his time away from the football field. Flores promptly began his NFL coaching career in 1971 when the Buffalo Bills hired him to become th...
Tom Flores and his wife Barbara have been married for 61 years. They have two sons, Mark and Scott, and a daughter, Kim. The couple has five grandchildren: Brian, Kevin, Jillian, Megan, and Jacob. Flores worked as a color commentator for the Raiders Radio Networkfrom 1997 to 2018. Tom Flores became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the s...
Tom Flores began his coaching career after a decade as a quarterback with the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, and Kanas City Chiefs (1960-69). He had stints as an assistant with the Buffalo Bills and then with the Raiders under Hall of Fame Coach John Madden winning Super Bowl XI.
Born March 21, 1937 in Fresno, California. The Hall of Fame bio of former Raiders Head Coach and QB, Tom Flores, inducted in 2021.
Aug 7, 2021 · Tom Flores, first Mexican-American NFL head coach, was a trailblazer and two-time Super Bowl winner. eric edholm. Fri, Aug 6, 2021 · 7 min read. Tom Flores' road to Canton was long and...
- Eric Edholm
Aug 9, 2021 · Flores, the soft-spoken Raiders coach who was at the helm for two of the club’s three Super Bowl victories, was inducted Sunday into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a fitting capstone for a...
Tom Flores was a football coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1971 to 1994, finishing his career as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Over his twenty-one years of coaching his teams compiled a cumulative win/loss record of 180-132-2.
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