Stan Humphries is a Shreveport quarterback from the start. Born in the city on April 14, 1965, he played his high school football at Southwood High School, won the 1987 Division I-AA national championship at Northeast Louisiana (now ULM), and later led San Diego to the only Super Bowl in Chargers history.
Southwood High School and Northeast Louisiana
Humphries grew up watching Shreveport's earlier quarterbacks and played his high school football at Southwood. In college he quarterbacked Northeast Louisiana to the 1987 I-AA national championship, and Washington took him in the sixth round of the 1988 NFL Draft. He earned a Super Bowl XXVI ring as Mark Rypien's backup.
The Chargers' run to Super Bowl XXIX
In the 1994 playoffs Humphries rallied San Diego from a 21–6 halftime deficit to beat Dan Marino's Dolphins 22–21, then won the AFC Championship Game 17–13 at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium as a 10½-point underdog. That sent the Chargers to Super Bowl XXIX, still the franchise's only Super Bowl appearance.
San Francisco won that game 49–26, but Humphries made history by throwing the first successful two-point conversion in Super Bowl history, a pass to Mark Seay.
Legacy
As San Diego's starter from 1992 to 1997, Humphries made 81 starts, threw for 17,191 yards and 89 touchdowns, and went 47–29 in the regular season. He is in the Chargers Hall of Fame (2002), was named to the franchise's 50th anniversary team, and entered the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
“You'd look up to Bradshaw, Ferguson, David Woodley and try to follow in their footsteps.”
Stan Humphries, to The Advocate/nola.com (2016)
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Stan Humphries’s Super Bowl starts
| Super Bowl | Date | Result | Site · Game MVP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Bowl XXIX | Jan. 29, 1995 | L · 49ers 49, Chargers 26 | Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami · MVP: Steve Young |
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