Shreveport, Louisiana · Est. 1836
No city has produced more Super Bowl starting quarterbacks. Three Shreveport natives, six Super Bowl starts, four rings — only Pittsburgh matches its three.
By the numbers
Sort every Super Bowl starting quarterback by the city where he was born, and Shreveport sits at the top: three different starters. Only Pittsburgh matches it. And Shreveport is the only city whose own high schools produced three different Super Bowl starting QBs — Woodlawn, Byrd and Southwood.
| City (birthplace) | Different SB starting QBs | Total SB starts |
|---|---|---|
| Shreveport, LA | 3 | 6 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 3 | 6 |
| New Orleans, LA | 2 | 6 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 2 | 6 |
Pound for pound
Super Bowl starting QBs per million residents: Shreveport's 3 against a Shreveport–Bossier metro of about 547,000, versus the Pittsburgh metro's 4 (Namath, Unitas, Montana, Marino, by high school) against about 2.4 million. Metro population figures depend on the metro definition used.
How we count: birthplace per each player's Wikipedia infobox, spot-checked against Pro-Football-Reference; every other birthplace city has one Super Bowl starter. Jim Kelly is listed as Pittsburgh-born by PFR, ESPN and Wikipedia (some sources say East Brady, PA). Most total starts from one city belongs to San Mateo, CA — all 10 by Tom Brady. By metro region, Western Pennsylvania, Southern California and the Bay Area have more starters. Through Super Bowl LX (Feb. 2026). See every way to count Super Bowl quarterbacks by city →
The Super Bowl Starters
Pittsburgh Steelers · 1970–1983
Four starts. Four rings. Two MVPs.
Born in Shreveport and a Woodlawn High product, Bradshaw starred at Louisiana Tech and went No. 1 overall in the 1970 NFL Draft.
Miami Dolphins · 1980–1985
Youngest Super Bowl starter of his era.
A Shreveport native and three-year starter at Byrd High, Woodley played at LSU and was an eighth-round pick by Miami in 1980. He led the Dolphins to the AFC title in the 1982 season and started Super Bowl XVII at 24 — at the time the youngest quarterback ever to start a Super Bowl — opening the scoring with a 76-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Cefalo.
San Diego Chargers · 1988–1997
Took the Chargers to their only Super Bowl.
Born in Shreveport and a Southwood High product, Humphries won the 1987 I-AA national title at Northeast Louisiana and was drafted by Washington in 1988. After earning a ring as a backup in Super Bowl XXVI, he led San Diego past Pittsburgh in the 1994 AFC Championship and started Super Bowl XXIX — the franchise's only Super Bowl appearance — where he threw the first successful two-point conversion in Super Bowl history.
The Wall of Fame
Shreveport–Bossier quarterbacks who went on to notable NFL or major-college careers, grouped by the high school they played for.
No. 1 overall pick in 1970; won all four Super Bowls he started, MVP of XIII and XIV; Pro Football Hall of Fame (1989). Full profile
Succeeded Bradshaw at Woodlawn and won the 1968 state title. 1971 Liberty Bowl MVP; 17 NFL seasons, mainly with Buffalo; led the NFL in TD passes (1975) and passing yards (1977); Bills Wall of Fame. Full profile
All-State Woodlawn quarterback who started ahead of Terry Bradshaw. Source
All-State Woodlawn quarterback of the 1960s; father of Josh and John David Booty; Evangel Christian Academy co-founder and athletic director. Source
Class of 1976, three-year starter and all-state. 1979 Tangerine Bowl MVP; started Super Bowl XVII for Miami at 24. Full profile
Won the 1987 I-AA national title in college; started Super Bowl XXIX for San Diego; Chargers Hall of Fame; Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (2007). Full profile
Terry's younger brother; NFL quarterback with the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. Full profile
Captain Shreve QB (1967–69) who quarterbacked Louisiana Tech's 1973 Division II national champions; later Evangel's founding head coach and head of school. Full profile
1993 national high school player of the year (USA Today, Parade) with about 11,700 passing yards; played QB in the NFL and third base in the majors. Full profile
1999 Gatorade National Player of the Year; 45–0 as a starter with an area-record 13,707 yards; later with the St. Louis Rams. Full profile
Set national high school records with 11,324 passing yards and 138 TD passes in the mid-1990s. Source
Two-year USC starter and first-team All-Pac-10 (2006); Minnesota Vikings pick in 2008. Full profile
MVP of the 2021 Big 12 Championship Game. Full profile
Rising star: set the NFHS national single-game record with 817 passing yards. Source
Dallas Cowboys starter since 2016: Offensive Rookie of the Year, four Pro Bowls, 2022 Walter Payton Man of the Year, NFL TD-pass leader in 2023. Full profile
Class of 2002; 7,543 career passing yards, among the top five in area history (Shreveport Times, 2015). Source
On this day
Why Shreveport
Because no city has produced more Super Bowl starting quarterbacks. Three Shreveport natives — Terry Bradshaw (Woodlawn High), David Woodley (Byrd High) and Stan Humphries (Southwood High) — have started a combined six Super Bowls. Only Pittsburgh matches that number, and Shreveport is the only city whose own high schools produced three different Super Bowl starters.
Terry Bradshaw (Woodlawn), David Woodley (Byrd) and Stan Humphries (Southwood) all started Super Bowls. Other notable names include Joe Ferguson (Woodlawn), Dak Prescott (Haughton High in Bossier Parish), Brock Berlin, Josh Booty and John David Booty (all Evangel Christian), Craig Bradshaw (Southwood) and Shreveport-born Tommy Maddox.
Three: Terry Bradshaw (Super Bowls IX, X, XIII and XIV with Pittsburgh), David Woodley (XVII with Miami) and Stan Humphries (XXIX with San Diego). That is six starts, a 4–2 record, four championships and two Super Bowl MVP awards.
By birthplace, Shreveport and Pittsburgh are tied with three each. Counting only high schools inside the city limits, Shreveport leads outright with three quarterbacks from three different schools. By metro region, Western Pennsylvania leads with six. (Through Super Bowl LX, February 2026.)
Woodlawn High School in Shreveport, now Woodlawn Leadership Academy. He then played at Louisiana Tech and was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1970 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Our colors
Shreveport's city flag is a vertical tribar — deep French blue at the hoist, white in the center, gold at the fly. It was chosen in a 1934 public design contest ahead of the city's 1935 centennial; the winner was local artist and World War I veteran Stewart G. Davis, who called it “the best piece of work I've ever done.”
The shield at its center carries 18 gold stars on blue (Louisiana was the 18th state), a red diagonal band with three magnolia blossoms (the state flower, one for each part of the Ark-La-Tex), and 14 blue cones — Shreve ermine — borrowed from the Shreve family coat of arms. A pelican sits on top, a wreath of cotton leaves below, and a ribbon reads “City of Shreveport 1835.”
This site takes its colors straight from that flag: French blue, white and gold, with the shield's red and green as accents.