Lynn Dickey Clifford Lynn Dickey ( born October 19 , 1949 ) is a retired National Football League quarterback , who played for the Houston Oilers and the Green Bay Packers in the 1970s and 1980s . High school . Dickey grew up in Osawatomie , Kansas , where he led his high school football team to a state championship . The football stadium there is named after him . College career . Dickey was recruited by Kansas State University in 1967 , and he soon became the top quarterback in the Big Eight Conference . Following his senior season in 1970 , Dickey finished 10th in the voting for the Heisman Trophy and was named MVP of the East - West Shrine Game . His 6 , 208 career passing yards stood as a record at Kansas State for 38 years , until it was passed by Josh Freeman in 2008 . Professional career . Houston Oilers . Following graduation , Dickey was drafted in the third round of the 1971 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers , where he played four seasons . Dickey started ten games with the Oilers , winning two overall , including Houston ' s lone win in the 1973 season . Green Bay Packers . In 1976 he was packaged in a trade to the Green Bay Packers involving John Hadl . Dickey led the Packers to the playoffs in the strike - shortened 1982 season . The Packers won the opening round after Dickey went 19 of 26 ( 73 % ) for 286 yards with 4 touchdowns and no interceptions in a 41 - 16 triumph over the St . Louis Cardinals . Green Bay was eliminated the following week by the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round after Dickey went 24 of 37 for 274 yards with 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions as the team fell 37 - 26 . Perhaps the high point of Dickey ' s NFL career came in 1983 when he powered the Packers ' offense to a then - team record 429 points . His 4 , 458 yards that season served as the team record until being surpassed by Aaron Rodgers in 2011 , and threw a career - best 32 touchdowns , the most in the NFL in 1983 . Dickey was named second - team All - NFC behind Joe Theismann . Dickey ' s Packers had beaten Theismann ' s Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins in a thrilling " Monday Night Football " game earlier that season ( Washington kicker Mark Moseley missed a field goal in the closing seconds , preserving the Packers ' 48 - 47 win ) . The game remains the highest aggregate score in " MNF " history . Dickey retired from professional football after the 1985 season . He holds Packers records for highest completion percentage in a game with a minimum of 20 attempts ( 19 - 21 , 90 . 48 % , versus New Orleans on December 13 , 1981 ) . His record for most passing yards in a regular season game ( 418 versus Tampa Bay on October 12 , 1980 was broken by Matt Flynn on Jan . 1 , 2012 with 460 yards . ( Aaron Rodgers had 422 in a playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals ) ; and highest average gain in a season ( 9 . 21 yards per attempt in 1983 ) . The latter is an NFL single - season record for quarterbacks with 400 or more attempts . Personal life . After retiring from football , Dickey relocated to the greater Kansas City area where he opened a football - themed restaurant . After a business partner was found to be unethical , he left the restaurant business for a career in public relations . Dickey has four grown daughters ; Natalie , Meredith , Elizabeth and Paloma Guastello who was previously married to George Guastello of Leawood Kansas , and resides in Leawood , Kansas . He then worked for the popular Kansas City AM station Sports Radio 810 on the show " Crunch Time " , airing at 9 : 00 a . m . He now works at Serve You , a Pharmacy Benefit Management company home based in Milwaukee , WI . Then worked at MBPI in Lee ' s Summit as an accountant . Honors . In 1996 , when the Big Eight expanded to the Big 12 Conference , the Associated Press named Dickey as the All - Time Big Eight Quarterback . Kansas State University has retired the No . 11 to jointly honor Dickey and his successor at KSU , Steve Grogan . It is the only number retired by Kansas State ' s football program . Dickey is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame .