The 2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers represented Eastern Illinois University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season.
 Finishing the regular season with a record of 8–3, the panthers were invited to the I-AA (Now FCS) playoffs, falling in the first round to Western Illinois by a final of 9–48.
 Quarterback Tony Romo's efforts earned him mass attention including making him the 2002 recipient of the Walter Payton Award.
 Despite not being selected at the 2003 NFL draft.
 Romo eventually signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a free agent, eventually landing the starting job in 2006, racking up four Pro Bowl Selections.
Matt Barr (born September 12, 1987) is an American football quarterback with the Western Illinois Leathernecks football team.
 During the 2010 season, Barr threw for 3,410 yards 27 touchdowns and 8 interceptions in 13 games.
 He also ran for 675 yards and 7 touchdowns.
 Following the season, Barr was named as one of the three finalists for the 2010 Walter Payton Award, given annually to the top player in NCAA Division I Football Championship Series (Division I-AA).
The 2007–08 New Jersey Nets season was the 41st season, 32nd in the NBA basketball in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
 Midseason, All-Star point guard Jason Kidd was shipped to the Dallas Mavericks, the team where he began his career.
 He would later help the Mavericks win their first ever NBA championship in 2011.
 Kidd would later return to the Nets, in Brooklyn, as their head coach for the 2013–14 season.
Giovanni Carmazzi (born April 14, 1977) is a former American football player.
 He never played in a regular season NFL game but was on the roster of the San Francisco 49ers as a backup quarterback.
 He is an alumnus of Jesuit High School in Carmichael, California.
 He was coached by his father, Dan Carmazzi, while playing for the Marauders.
 He attended Hofstra University where he threw for over 9,000 yards and still holds most records for the quarterback position at Hofstra.
 He was a Walter Payton Award finalist in his senior year.
The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award is presented annually by the National Football League (NFL) honoring a player's volunteer and charity work, as well as his excellence on the field.
 Prior to 1999, it was called simply the NFL Man of the Year Award.
 Shortly after Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton died (having been the 1977 recipient himself), the award was renamed to honor his legacy as a humanitarian.
 Each year, a winner is selected from 32 nominees from the 32 different teams.
 A panel of judges, which includes the Commissioner of the NFL, Connie Payton (widow of Walter Payton), the previous year's winner, and a number of former players select the winner of the award.
 The Man of the Year winner receives a $50,000 donation in his name to a charity of his choice.
 The other 31 finalists also receive donations in their name of $5,000 each to charities of their choice.
 The Chicago Bears and Kansas City Chiefs have had more winners of the award than any other team, with 5 winners each.
 The winners for the 2016 award are New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.
The 1994 Alcorn State Braves were an NCAA Division I-AA football team who represented Alcorn State University.
 They participated in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).
 The Braves were led by head coach Cardell Jones and quarterback and Walter Payton Award winner Steve McNair.
 The Braves finished the regular season with a record of 8–2–1; tying them for first place in the SWAC with Grambling State and earning a spot in the I-AA playoffs, where they fell in the first round to eventual national champion Youngstown State by a final score of 63–20.
 Grambling, as the conference's top seed, represented the SWAC in the Heritage Bowl.
Antonio Ramiro Romo (born April 21, 1980) is a former American football quarterback who played his entire career with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
 He played college football for Eastern Illinois University, where he won the Walter Payton Award in 2002, and led the Panthers to an Ohio Valley Conference championship in 2001.
The 2016–17 Dallas Mavericks season was the 37th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 For the first time since 2013, the Mavs did not qualify for the playoffs.
 This was also their first losing season since 2000.
 On April 11, during their last home regular season game, the Mavericks honored former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo by joining the team as an honorary member that night, although he would not play any minutes for the Mavs that night, as he was not considered an official member of the team that night.
The 2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season was the 31st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Mavericks won the NBA Championship after defeating the Miami Heat in 6 games in the 2011 NBA Finals.
 The Mavs playoff run came with a 6-game first round series against the Portland Trail Blazers, a series in which the Mavericks blew a 23-point lead in Game 4, but still won the series.
 In the conference semi-finals, the Mavericks run was motivated with a sweep of the champions of the previous two seasons, the Los Angeles Lakers.
 The series against the Lakers also became the birth of the Mavericks Royal Blue-Out games in the AAC, with almost all fans wearing T-shirts that read "The Time is Now".
 In the Western Conference Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Mavericks won the last 3 games winning by 4th quarter comebacks, to win their second Western Conference Championship, and a trip to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2006, with a rematch against the Heat.
 Following a disappointing Game 1, the Mavericks pulled the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history in Game 2 to even the series at 1 game each.
 After a loss in Game 3, the Mavericks won the last two games in Dallas to take a 3–2 series lead heading to Game 6 in Miami.
 The Mavericks won their first NBA Championship in Game 6 to clinch the first major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since the Dallas Stars in 1999, and the first title in Mavericks franchise history.
 The Mavericks are the third team to win an NBA title in the state of Texas, joining the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs.
 The Mavericks are also the third team to win a major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, joining the Dallas Cowboys' five Super Bowl titles and the Dallas Stars' only Stanley Cup, leaving the Texas Rangers as the only team to not win a major sports title in the area, as they have not won the World Series.
 The Mavericks championship parade was held on June 16, 2011 in downtown Dallas.
Michael Payton (born March 5, 1970) is a former American football quarterback.
 He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd at Marshall University.
 He was the recipient of the 1992 Walter Payton Award, which is bestowed annually upon Division I-AA's most outstanding player.
 After college, he played one season in the Arena Football League for the Florida Bobcats.

Question: In what year did the former quarterback honored at the last home regular season game of the 2016-17 Dallas Mavericks win the Walter Payton Award?
Answer: 2002