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Andre Ware

American football player and analyst (born 1968)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
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Andre Trevor Ware is an American sports analyst and commentator, and a former professional football player. He played professionally as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL), Canadian Football League (CFL) and NFL Europe. Ware played college football for the Houston Cougars, winning the Heisman Trophy and Davey O'Brien Award in 1989. He was the first black quarterback to receive the Heisman. In the 1990 NFL draft, Ware was selected in the first round by the Detroit Lions with the seventh overall pick. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

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The public source identifies “Andre Ware” as american football player and analyst (born 1968). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Andre, Ware and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1990, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Andre, Ware and American providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1990 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andre Ware” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.