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| Position | Quarterback | ||||||||
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| Born | (1945-03-09)March 9, 1945 (age 80) South Gate, California, U.S. | ||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Gardena(Los Angeles, California) | ||||||||
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| NFL draft | 1967: 1st round, 25th overall pick | ||||||||
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Donald Glenn Horn (born March 9, 1945) is an American former professionalfootball player who was aquarterback for eight seasons in theNational Football League (NFL) with theGreen Bay Packers,Denver Broncos,Cleveland Browns, andSan Diego Chargers. He playedcollege football for theSan Diego State Aztecs.[1]
Born inSouth Gate, California, Horn graduated fromGardena High School inLos Angeles in 1963, where he starred infootball andbaseball for the Mohicans.[1]
He briefly attendedWashington State University inPullman and captained the freshman team,[2] then playedcollege football atHarbor Junior College in Los Angeles. Horn transferred toSan Diego State College and played under head coachDon Coryell.[1][2] SDSC was then in the college division of theNCAA, today'sDivision II, and Horn was anAll-American.[1] As a senior, he threw to future NFL receiverHaven Moses, a teammate at Harbor JC.[2]
Horn was a first-round selection in the1967 NFL/AFL draft, 25th overall, taken by the defendingSuper Bowl championGreen Bay Packers.
He served asBart Starr's back-up in Green Bay for four seasons, although he was in theU.S. Army in1968 and wasn't activated until hours before the season finale in mid-December. Horn relieved injured back-upZeke Bratkowski in the first quarter and guided the Packers to a one-point win over theChicago Bears atWrigley Field, which denied them the division title.[3][4][5][6]
Horn's greatest game as a professional came in1969 atLambeau Field.[7] Playing at home in the season finale on December 21 against theSt. Louis Cardinals, he completed 22 of 31 passes for 410 yards, with five touchdown passes and one interception.[8][9] He started five games in 1969, leading the Packers to a 4–1 record and throwing for 1,500 yards, 11 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.[10] Green Bay finished at 8–6, third place in the Central division, four games behind theMinnesota Vikings (12–2), who clinched the division title.
Horn was traded from the Packers to theDenver Broncos forAlden Roche on January 28, 1971, in a transaction that also included a swap of1971 first-round picks; the Packers selectedJohn Brockington at 9th, the BroncosMarv Montgomery at 12th.[11][12] Horn started nine games (2–6–1) for a 4–9–1 Denver team in1971, throwing 3 touchdowns against 14 interceptions.[13] After two seasons in Denver under three head coaches, he spent a season each inCleveland andSan Diego.[10]
Horn finished his pro career in1975 with thePortland Thunder of the soon-defunctWorld Football League (WFL), where he completed 158 of 272 passes for 1742 yards and 11 TDs and 12 picks. Primarily a reserve as a professional, Horn passed for 3,369 yards and 20 touchdowns in eight NFL seasons.
After his playing career ended, Horn entered the real estate business inColorado.[1][14]
During a conversation in 2008, Horn talked about the excitement he felt when he was selected by the Green Bay Packers as their first round draft choice with a contract for $15,000 in 1967. As he stated, "that was over $1,000 a month, something today's players wouldn't even cross the street for."
Packer head coachVince Lombardi told his players that he was aware "three or four of you are here for the money and are sorry souls." Horn responded that the opposite is true today, that only "three or four are playing now for the love of the game."