Tony Gonzalez Quotes
When I first came into the league, we went 13-3 with a first-round bye, and I said, 'OK, this is how the NFL goes. This is cake. I'll have a Super Bowl trip every couple of years.' That's what I thought.
Gonzalez, Tony. Interview. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cox Enterprises, 2012.
The NFL and AFL were then separate leagues which had just begun playing for the professional football chanpionship each year. Hunt wrote this letter and Roselle and others on his staff liked the term better than any that they had been considering and this quotation was the coining of the Super Bowl, the most famous and viewed sports event in the world.
Anthony David Gonzalez is a former professional American football tight end. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Atlanta Falcons. Regarded as one of the greatest tight ends of all-time, Gonzalez played college football and college basketball at University of California, Berkeley, and was recognized as a consensus All-American in football. He was drafted by the Chiefs in the first round of the 1997 NFL Draft, where he played for 12 seasons, and was a member of the Atlanta Falcons in his last five seasons. Since retiring, he has served as an analyst for Fox Sports.
