Kurt Warner's Pro Football Hall of Fame credentials questioned, defended after post (2024)

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How much older is Brenda Warner than Kurt? ›

She was four years his senior, and the then-21-year-old Kurt was a student at the University of Northern Iowa, where he played quarterback and harbored dreams of playing in the NFL.

Warner helped lead the Rams to a championship, defeating the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. In the victory, he threw two touchdowns and had 414 passing yards, a record at the time. He is the only undrafted quarterback to win a Super Bowl, the only undrafted player to be named NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP.

Unaware of the meaning of the term, she shortly thereafter learned the fate of most “camp arms.” The Packers, with quarterbacks BRETT FAVRE,(Opens in a new window) Mark Brunell and Ty Detmer also participating in that camp, cut Kurt from the team. “He wasn't ready. He wasn't recruited out of high school.

He was also the first quarterback to win a Super Bowl during his first season as the primary starter. Warner was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017, and is the first and only player inducted to both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Arena Football Hall of Fame.

She was everything he needed. Brenda Warner will admit it took the stout St. Louis Rams quarterback some time to get up the nerve to propose. They dated for five years, but she said it was time they needed to grow individually, and to push each other toward excellence.

Warner adopted Brenda's two children, son Zachary and daughter Jesse, after their marriage. Zachary is blind from the head injuries he got when he was accidentally dropped by his birth-father as a baby.

Unable to land a football scholarship to a Division I-A (now known as Football Bowl Subdivision) college, Warner attended the University of Northern Iowa, where he did not become a starter until his fifth and final year.

"Coming to practice every day, believing you're the best player and never getting the chance to play, running scout team after being in the league and winning MVPs and going to Super Bowls, it was mentally exhausting," Warner said. "That's why retirement came to mind. "That was the most frustrating part of my career."

Warner was undrafted in 1994 out of Northern Iowa, as the Packers gave him a shot to make a roster with Brett Favre, Mark Brunell, and Ty Detmer. After not making the Packers, Warner went from stocking shelves to shining with the Iowa Barnstormers in the Arena Football League.

How many Super Bowls did Kurt Warner go to? ›

Kurt Warner has an estimated net worth of $30 million. He earned most of his wealth from his football career, which spanned over two decades. During that time, he played for teams like the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals and in NFL Europe and Arena Football League.

Kurt was a struggling 21-year-old quarterback at the University of Northern Iowa who, he says, "sat on the bench for four years" as his NFL dreams seemed to be fading by the day. Brenda, then 25, was a newly-divorced single mom of two working her way through nursing school.

Warner played in the NFL for 12 seasons before announcing his retirement at the age of 38 in January 2010.

Their oldest son, Zachary, whom Kurt adopted along with Brenda's oldest daughter Jesse, has been blind since suffering a head injury in an accident when he was a baby. They have seven children, three boys and four girls.

Warner was seen as more of a training camp arm than a player who had a real chance to make the team, especially with Brett Favre and Mark Brunell already on the roster as quarterbacks. Warner didn't make the team.