Coachella Valley Super Bowl Champ Voted Into Hall Of Fame

Palm Desert CA

07 February, 2021

10:01 PM

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INDIAN WELLS, CA — Four-time Super Bowl champion and Coachella Valley resident Tom Flores was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night, and will be officially enshrined later this year. "It's hard to put it into words what this moment means," the 83-year-old Flores said in a video interview posted to Raiders.com. "It's just a great honor to be in that room with all those gold jackets." Flores was the first Latino quarterback to win a Super Bowl ring and the first minority head coach to win a Lombardi Trophy. He and Mike Ditka are the only people in National Football League history to win a Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach and head coach. Flores, who lives in Indian Wells, won Super Bowl IV as a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl XI as an assistant coach of the Oakland Raiders, and Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVIII as head coach of the Raiders. After retiring as the Raiders head coach, he spent more than 20 years in the radio booth announcing the team's games. Former players selected Saturday night included Peyton Manning, Calvin Johnson, Alan Faneca, John Lynch and Charles Woodson. Drew Pearson, a receiver with the Dallas Cowboys from 1973-83, was selected from the senior category. Longtime Pittsburgh Steelers scout and personnel executive Bill Nunn was selected in the contributor category. The Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2021 will be enshrined on Aug. 8 in Canton, Ohio.