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4 unusual facts about Richard Dent


Les Richter

On February 5, 2011 it was announced that he had been elected to the Pro Football Hall Of Fame along with Deion Sanders, Richard Dent, Marshall Faulk, Ed Sabol, Shannon Sharpe, and Chris Hanburger.

Richard Dent

Marshall picked up the loose ball and returned it for a touchdown, a moment said to be a perfect end to the Bears' season (at home) and others say the snow was "Papa Bear" George Halas giving his thumbs-up to the team.

According to a DNA analysis, he descended, mainly, from Mende people of Sierra Leone and Balanta people of Guinea Bissau.

Dent would remain with the team until the end of the 1993 season, after the Bears had won just one playoff game since their loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the 1988 NFC Championship Game, and head coach Mike Ditka had been replaced by Dave Wannstedt.


John Randle

Randle left the NFL tied with Richard Dent for 5th in number of career sacks, and his 137.5 career sacks is the most by a defensive tackle in NFL history, aside from Vikings legend Alan Page who had a total of 148.5 sacks.


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