Warren Moon

CTL-E-5930 · Person · other · 1956–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07173 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5930.

Warren Moon (born November 18, 1956, Los Angeles) is the quarterback whose career exposed and then outlasted the NFL's refusal to draft Black quarterbacks. At the University of Washington he was named MVP of the 1978 Rose Bowl, yet no NFL team drafted him, so he began his professional career in Canada, leading the Edmonton Eskimos to five consecutive Grey Cup championships (1978–1982), a CFL record, and winning two Grey Cup MVP awards. He then played seventeen NFL seasons, principally for the Houston Oilers (1984–1993), with later stops in Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City before retiring in 2000. Moon was named to nine Pro Bowls, was the NFL's Offensive Player of the Year in 1990, and threw for 49,325 NFL passing yards. In 2006 he became the first Black quarterback, and the first undrafted quarterback, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame; he remains the only player in both the Pro Football and Canadian Football Halls of Fame.

The record

• Also known as: Harold Warren Moon

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Warren Moon entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5930 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 1 packet ordered reserve, position 5 of 20 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #447). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — the defining barrier-breaking Black quarterback of his era and a Hall of Fame first; national-canon scope with a direct Chicago link in this packet (Willie Thrower, CTL-E-5936, whom Moon thanked in his Hall of Fame speech). Vital status: LIVING — born November 18, 1956; active public career in broadcasting and the Seattle Seahawks organization per the sources read. No tribute treatment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Five consecutive Grey Cup championships, 1978–1982 (CFL record; Sportsnet/Canadian Press). NFL: 49,325 passing yards, nine Pro Bowl selections, 1990 Offensive Player of the Year (Wikipedia). Hall of Fame induction 2006 — first Black quarterback and first undrafted quarterback so honored. MEDIA: photo HELD (Warren Moon in Edmonton Eskimos uniform, c. 1978–1983 named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5930-warren-moon.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Warren Moon" (accessed 2026-10-16) — November 18, 1956 Los Angeles birth, Washington and the 1978 Rose Bowl MVP, the undrafted start in Edmonton, five straight Grey Cups 1978–1982 as a CFL record, the 1984–1993 Oilers tenure, nine Pro Bowls, 1990 Offensive Player of the Year, 2006 Hall of Fame firsts, and the dual-Hall distinction — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Moon (primary source · build store)
• Sportsnet / The Canadian Press, "Campbell, Moon headed to Cdn Hall" (accessed 2026-10-16) — independent Canadian-press confirmation of the five straight Grey Cups (1978–82), the move to Houston in 1984, and Moon as the only player in both Halls of Fame — https://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/sports-hall-fame-0/ (build store)

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