On Monday (I acknowledge that I'm a little late on this post and for that I am sorry), former Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Emmitt Thomas was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Thomas is also currently the defensive backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Thomas was picked up by the Chiefs in 1966 as an undrafted free agent out of Bishop College in Texas where he played quaterback and wide receiver.
Thomas spent all of his 13 seasons with the Chiefs. In that time he recorded 58 interceptions (Chiefs record), 5 interceptions returned for touchdowns (tied for Chiefs record), 181 games played in (8th highest in team history), 1 AFL All Stars Game (1968), 4 NFL Pro Bowls (1971,72,74,75), 1 first-team All Pro selections (1974), 2 second-team All Pro selections (1969,71), and a Super Bowl Championship (1969 season).
He then went on to a coaching career where he won two more Super Bowls with the Washington Redskins as a wide receiver and defensive backs coach.
He was inducted into the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008.Now, if you haven't picked up on the irony yet, I'm going to go ahead and put my point out there: Emmitt Thomas was finally inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame two full years after he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? I know Texas is a sports pipeline and is known for its sports, but Thomas hasn't played since 1978 and won a Super Bowl and is a Hall of Famer. This seems crazy to me. Apparently the Texas Sports Hall of Fame is more exclusive than the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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