QBCITY
Independence Stadium in Shreveport at night

The Starters

Super Bowl Starters

Three Shreveport natives. Six Super Bowl starts. A 4–2 record, four championships and two MVPs.

The Super Bowl Starters

Shreveport QBs who started on football's biggest stage

Terry Bradshaw, the Shreveport native and Woodlawn High graduate who won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh SteelersWoodlawn High School

Pittsburgh Steelers · 1970–1983

Terry Bradshaw

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. He started four Super Bowls for Pittsburgh, won all four, and was named MVP of Super Bowls XIII and XIV. He entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility.

  • SB IXSteelers 16, Vikings 6Jan. 12, 1975
  • SB XSteelers 21, Cowboys 17Jan. 18, 1976
  • SB XIIISteelers 35, Cowboys 31Jan. 21, 1979 · MVP
  • SB XIVSteelers 31, Rams 19Jan. 20, 1980 · MVP
High school
Woodlawn High School, Shreveport
College
Louisiana Tech

Read Terry Bradshaw’s Shreveport story →

C. E. Byrd High School

Miami Dolphins · 1980–1985

David Woodley

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. He was the Dolphins’ team MVP as an eighth-round rookie in 1980 and died in Shreveport in 2003.

  • SB XVIIWashington 27, Dolphins 17Jan. 30, 1983
High school
C. E. Byrd High School, Shreveport
College
LSU

Read David Woodley’s Shreveport story →

Southwood High School

San Diego Chargers · 1988–1997

Stan Humphries

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. He is in the Chargers Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.

  • SB XXIX49ers 49, Chargers 26Jan. 29, 1995
High school
Southwood High School, Shreveport
College
Northeast Louisiana (now ULM)

Read Stan Humphries’s Shreveport story →

By the numbers

No city has produced more Super Bowl starting quarterbacks.

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.

3Super Bowl starting QBs born in Shreveport
6Super Bowl starts
4–2Record · 4 world titles
2Super Bowl MVPs (Bradshaw)
Super Bowl starting quarterbacks by birthplace city, through Super Bowl LX (February 2026)
City (birthplace)Different SB starting QBsTotal SB startsWho
Shreveport, LA36Bradshaw 4 · Woodley 1 · Humphries 1
Pittsburgh, PA36Kelly 4 · Unitas 1 · Marino 1
New Orleans, LA26P. Manning 4 · E. Manning 2
Cincinnati, OH26Staubach 4 · Wilson 2

Pound for pound

America's Quarterback City

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 →