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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 139
BY SENATOR MILLS AND REPRESENTATIVE HUVAL
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Louisiana native Jake C. Delhomme for being selected
to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To commend Louisiana native Jake C. Delhomme for being selected to the Louisiana Sports
3 Hall of Fame.
4 WHEREAS, Jake C. Delhomme was born on January 10, 1975, in Breaux Bridge,
5 Louisiana, to Jerry and Marcia Delhomme; and
6 WHEREAS, he married his high school sweetheart in 2000, the former Keri
7 Melancon, and they have two daughters, Lauren Elizabeth who was born December 17,
8 2001, and Lindsey Marie who was born February 25, 2007; and
9 WHEREAS, after playing as an All-State quarterback and defensive back at
10 Teurlings Catholic High School, Mr. Delhomme played college football for the University
11 of Louisiana at Lafayette, then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL), as
12 the only true freshman quarterback to become a starter for a Division I school in 1993; and
13 WHEREAS, the collegiate passer efficiency rating of Mr. Delhomme was second
14 among the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for freshmen quarterbacks; and
15 WHEREAS, on the USL football team he played alongside future National Football
16 League (NFL) wide receiver Brandon Stokley, and offensive lineman Anthony Clement, and
17 was named the all-time passing collegiate leader in yards and touchdowns; and
18 WHEREAS, upon graduation, Mr. Delhomme ranked twenty-second in NCAA
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1 history for passing yards, and twenty-eighth in total offense; and
2 WHEREAS, after the 1997 NFL draft, he signed with the New Orleans Saints as an
3 undrafted free agent, and was assigned to the NFL Amsterdam Admirals in Europe; and
4 WHEREAS, following his success with the Admirals as a backup quarterback to
5 future NFL and Super Bowl MVP, Kurt Warner, Mr. Delhomme returned to the New
6 Orleans Saints as their full-time third string quarterback, and in his first NFL start in 1999,
7 against the Dallas Cowboys, he threw two touchdowns en route to a New Orleans Saints
8 victory; and
9 WHEREAS, from 2003 to 2009, Mr. Delhomme wore number seventeen after the
10 date of his first daughter's birth; and
11 WHEREAS, in 2003, during the first game of the NFL season against the
12 Jacksonville Jaguars, the Panthers were down seventeen to zero, and Mr. Delhomme took
13 control at the last half of the game; he was able to throw three touchdowns the last of which
14 was on fourth-down with just sixteen seconds left in the game leading the Panthers to a
15 comeback victory; and
16 WHEREAS, in his first season, he started fifteen games with the Carolina Panthers,
17 throwing for nineteen touchdowns and more than three thousand yards; and
18 WHEREAS, in 2004, Mr. Delhomme started all sixteen games for the Carolina
19 Panthers, throwing twenty-nine touchdowns and completing three hundred ten passes for
20 three thousand eight hundred eighty-six yards; and
21 WHEREAS, in 2005, he became the Carolina Panther franchise all-team leader with
22 sixty regular season starts and thirty-five victories by a quarterback; he established a team
23 record of one hundred fifty consecutive pass attempts without an interception; and
24 WHEREAS, opening the 2006 NFL season, he completed more than two hundred
25 sixty passes with only eleven interceptions achieving the second highest pass completion
26 percentage in team history; and
27 WHEREAS, in 2007, he started his NFL season opener as the Carolina Panther
28 quarterback, marking the fourth consecutive season that Carolina fielded the same starting
29 quarterback in an opening game; and
30 WHEREAS, in 2008, he lead the Panthers to the NFC South title, engineering four
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1 fourth-quarter come-from-behind victories, and five second half come-from-behind wins;
2 and
3 WHEREAS, in the 2008 NFC Divisional Playoffs against the Arizona Cardinals, Mr.
4 Delhomme started his eighth career post season contest, completing seventeen passes for
5 more than two hundred passing yards; and
6 WHEREAS, he had twelve victories in his 2008 season, the most ever by a Carolina
7 Panther quarterback in a single season; and
8 WHEREAS, Mr. Delhomme established a Panther club record with an average
9 passing gain of seven point nine yards, and led NFL quarterbacks with seven drives during
10 the regular season in which Carolina scored decisive points inside the game's final two
11 minutes of regulation or overtime; and
12 WHEREAS, in Super Bowl XXXVIII against the New England Patriots, Mr.
13 Delhomme threw three touchdowns and completed the game with three hundred
14 twenty-three passing yards; and in a dramatic fourth quarter, he threw an eighty-five yard
15 touchdown pass, the longest offensive play in Super Bowl history; and
16 WHEREAS, since playing in his first Pro Bowl in 2005, no other NFL quarterback
17 has more game winning or tying drives in the final two minutes of professional football; and
18 WHEREAS, Mr. Delhomme played for the Cleveland Browns in 2010, and the
19 Houston Texans in 2011; and
20 WHEREAS, along with racing, owning, and training thoroughbred horses, Mr.
21 Delhomme has garnered popularity as a pitchman for the Cajun fast food restaurant,
22 Bojangles, has performed SunCom telephone commercials, and has done numerous public
23 service announcements for Civitan International, an organization of volunteer businessmen
24 determined to make a difference in their communities by collecting food for homeless
25 shelters, volunteering at local retirement homes, or helping those with developmental
26 disabilities; and
27 WHEREAS, selected by a thirty-five member Louisiana Sports Writers Association
28 committee in October 2014, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame named Jake Delhomme as
29 an inductee to be officially enshrined on June 27, 2015, in Natchitoches, Louisiana; and
30 WHEREAS, as a part of the 2015 induction class, Jake C. Delhomme's extraordinary
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1 high school, college, and professional football career will be showcased in the Louisiana
2 Sports Hall of Fame Museum.
3 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
4 commend and congratulate Louisiana native Jake C. Delhomme for being selected to the
5 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
6 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Jake
7 C. Delhomme.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SCR 139 Original 2015 Regular Session Mills
Commends Louisiana native Jake C. Delhomme for being selected to the Louisiana Sports
Hall of Fame.
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