TDBH: Blake fires longest pass in Pro Bowl history

HONOLULU - Bengals quarterback Jeff Blake completes his improbable year-and-a-half ride from the waiver wire to Waikiki when he starts today’s Pro Bowl for the AFC and not John Elway or Dan Marino or Jim Kelly. And in that first drive he immediately gives the AFC a 7-0 lead when he hits Steelers wide receiver Yancey Thigpen for the longest pass in Pro Bowl history on a 93-yard touchdown pass. Blake, cut by the Jets before the last season and picked up by the Bengals only when the backup doesn’t take a pay cut, suddenly becomes the future with a signature long ball when both QBs in front of him _ David Klingler and Donald Hollas _ get hurt within two snaps of each other in the seventh game of 1994.

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