How IDENTITY THEFT ENDED An NFL Player's CAREER | Mark Higgs (1992 Dolphins)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- In the 1992 NFL season, Dolphins running back Mark Higgs was playing some of the best football of his career, and was showing no signs of slowing down as he helped guide the Dolphins to an AFC East crown. That all changed when a case of mistaken identity completely rocked his world, as through no fault of his own, it marked the exact moment when everything went south
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Members of the 1992 Dolphins:
Reggie Roby
Joe Prokop
Pete Stoyanovich
Jim Jensen
Dan Marino
Scott Mitchell
Mark Higgs
James Saxon
Troy Vincent
Vestee Jackson
Louis Oliver
Jarvis Williams
Liffort Hobley
Bernie Parmalee
Bruce Alexander
Aaron Craver
Kerry Glenn
Stephen Braggs
JB Brown
Chris Green
Bobby Humphrey
Bobby Harden
Dave Moore
Darrell Malone
Tony Paige
Dwight Hollier
Bryan Cox
Roosevelt Collins
John Offerdahl
Mark Sander
John Grimsley
Bert Weidner
Gene Williams
Harry Galbreath
Jeff Uhlenhake
Jeff Dellenbach
Keith Sims
Mark Dennis
Richmond Webb
Larry Webster
Ferrell Edmunds
Robert Clark
Scott Miller
Mark Clayton
Greg Baty
Mark Duper
Fred Banks
Mike Williams
Keith Jackson
Tony Martin
Marco Coleman
Jeff Cross
David Griggs
Cliff Odom
TJ Turner
Alfred Oglesby
Jeff Hunter
Chuck Klingbeil
Don Shula (head coach)
Mark Higgs played for the following Dolphins teams:
1990 Dolphins
1991 Dolphins
1992 Dolphins
1993 Dolphins
1994 Dolphins
I was at the 1990 game vs the Patriots when Higgs blocked a punt. He and Bernie Parmalee were two of my favorite Dolphins players in the 90s.
So it was the knee injury that effectively ended his career, not identity theft. Gotcha.
"Running Back's career cut short by knee injury" obviously doesn't have the same clickbait potential.
That said, still was an interesting story about a relatively forgotten player. On a lot of his videos I enjoy the "first let's get some context" sections more than whatever the video is supposed to be covering.
He wouldn’t have injured his knee if he didn’t have his identity stolen, which he wouldn’t have been jailed for if he wasn’t speeding. So, speed kills careers.
I’m sorry but I didn’t hear anything about him being in jail. Only that he was in police custody for something that his neighbor did under his name and that he was let go with a warning for his speeding. That’s what I heard in the video unless I wasn’t paying attention.
@@Tdull-tv1ds he was in a holding cell wearing a suit because he just left a team party/function. Not prison but jail still
These videos remind me of a time when the NFL did not suck.
Love your videos but it was the injury. Not the identity theft incident.
Dan Marino had to have the WORST luck when it came to having stable and consistent RBs as teammates.
@@matthewdaley746 I'd bet he really envied Jim Kelly having Thurman Thomas. Hell, he would have loved having Kenneth Davis.
Omg true dat
Sammie Smith was supposed to be the guy.
It seemed like Marino's RBs were hurt or failed drug tests or arrested (Smith Collins) or died (Overstreet) and this episode kept Marino from having his first 1000 yard rusher until his 13th season.
Are we sure the knee injury wasn't the full cause? Based on what you said, the ID theft seems like nothing more than a coincidence.
I was 2 years ahead of Mark in high school. One of the nicest guys you could come across. Talking to him, you'd think he was the 3rd-string QB, not the #1player in the state and recruited by all the big schools.
Thanks for your story, he sounds like a really nice guy who deserved a good life.
That is so like him! I went to UK with him, and we were part of Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Let me tell you, he's one of the most humble, talented athlete I've ever met. He worked hard for every ounce of success he achieved in pro football -- and deserved more! He's the type of man you'd root for. About 15 years after his career ended, he spotted me in Miami (while he was doing his gig as RB coach at Miami Central) and recognized me, and greeted me so kindly, asking about my life and so forth. I'm sure those Dolphins linemen blocked extra hard for him. He's one of those kinds of people.
@@concepcionledezma5027he was a goof ball smile in your face type of guy as he got older
"Identity theft is not a joke, Jim. Millions of families suffer every year."
MICHAEL!!!!
"Oh that's funny, Michael!"
it seems like mostly just a coincidence, and I am looking at the plays, it looked like the Pats were just playing really good run defense, you can't put it all on Higgs and his possible "mental state", it's just bad luck. Pats were banking on good run defense and he got injured trying to push through it, it happens, it might have happened anyway even if he hadn't had identity theft happen.
The unanswered question of this piec, and if the piece is, "Was Irving Bailey ever caught and, if so, what happened to him?" Hopefully, he WAS caught and is still in jail.
How about the the Chicago Bears game on Monday night football. I think the game was in the late 1990's. It was at Soldier Stadium. I think the Bears were kicking the point after the TD,a fan jumped out of the stands and caught the ball in the air and then fell like 30feet down. I would love a video on that crazy incident!!!!
For real? 🤨
@@luisreyes1963 Yes it happened. When the kicker kicked the ball ,it went over the net and heading to the tunnel and that's when the fan jumped and caught the ball and started falling down.
@@roecc8134 I think it was like 25 feet but still crazy as hell, impressive, and flat out funny.
That was the best catch of the gsme
I knew Mark. A more honest, sweetest and nicest man you will never meet.
That Jets game late in 1992 featured Pete Carroll (then the Jets defensive coordinator) giving the choke signal after Dolphins Kicker Pete Stoyanovich missed an extra point. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how Stoyanovich’s career was saved in his rookie season by another kicker missing a late field goal.
Seems like it had nothing to do with identity theft and everything to do with a knee injury.
You could just as easily say it was caused by a team Christmas party.
@@michaellee4276 Probably dehydrated after spending a day in jail after the xmas party.
The ID theft had LITTLE to do with his career ending... It certainly wasn't the REASON it ended. Higgs was injured Dolphins drafted Kirby and then Bernie Parmalee got his chance and had a couple nice years.
Wow--That was some story. Great job laying out this context. Higgs was a solid RB. Didn't know this story of how his football career came crashing down. Nice job
Our son Jeff was the center for the Dolphins at that time and after a game we were talking with Mark and he told us how his identity was stolen and he was devastated. I think he felt like his good name was destroyed. He was such a nice guy!
Was not expecting to see this comment on here, but thanks so much! Completely agreed. Your son was an exceptional player too on some great Miami OLs
I love the vast majority of your videos and appreciate the effort you put into your research but even after rewatching the part of this video covering the identity theft I still don't see any correlation between that and his career ending. It was just a coincidence that it occurred around the same time that his career began to crumble. If I'm missing something, I'd be glad to be corrected but as it stands this just feels like clickbait.
Mark was a good back for miami
And your the best thing on youtube
Thank you so much
Loaded wit fantastic stories
Met him in person back in early 90s, he was a very humble man, he had a sports bar , " Higg's goal line Cafe " in Plantation Florida!!!
Hope he is doing good!!!
You should cover Jeff Samardzija's story. he was a good Wr at Notre Dame and was a finalist for the fred biletnikoff award. He was going to be a 1st-2nd round pick in the 06 draft.. but he withdrew from the draft and went to play baseball for the Cubs and had a solid career in the MLB
I'm most impressed you spelled that correctly. Jeff's story is not that rare. Kirk Gibson is another example. Well, I guess it's rare but it's happened a handful of times.
Yeah, when you're a 6 foot 4 guy, growing up. You're probably gonna be elite in multiple sports. Especially if one is summer and the other winter. Tom Glavine on the other hand at 6 feet was probably too small to excel in Football, so had to settle for Ice Hockey.
@@MarkVrem probably at wr or RB
@@matthewdaley746 yes very sad lol
I used to joke about him being the best WR in Chicago before the Bears got Brandon Marshall
One day you will do a video called “WHEN AN INVESTIGATION OF ONE NFL TEAM (WFT) LED TO A FIRING OF A COACH OF ANOTHER NFL TEAM (RAIDERS).
And somehow work in a reference to when the two teams faced off in SB XVIII.
Ran into him at Sears in south Florida.hes getting battery changed in his lotus....very nice man
You @ 4:47: “the dolphins won 19-17 on a late fg
Lions fans: *I am triggered*
Damn Dolphins had some terrible backs. 2:03 you named three terrible running backs on the dolphins depth chart ahead of Higgs
Maybe bad running backs, but this guy took a pay cut to stay in a city, and with teammates he liked.
I respect him, honestly.
@@67marlins81 who are you talking about? I don't think Higgs was terrible. I'm talking about most of the others.
Wrong it was because of hurricane Andrew the dolphins play week 2
He should have just spiked the ball on every play
Omg classic hahahahaha
The million dollar question is what happened to the man who stoel his identity
Another interesting case of identity theft: somebody went around a while back impersonating Danny Wuerrfel, of all people.
This dude has the coolest content. Wonder where he digs up the footage
Where the hell do you find these stories? Anyways, great content.
He had games of 11 yards rushing and 22 yards rushing earlier in that season.
Dozens of better RBs had shorter careers than Higgs. Nine times out of ten the end comes due to injuries, same as Higgs.
This is my uncle I'm named after him BBN for life
IDENTITY THEFT was the LEAST of Mark Higgs' PROBLEMS. He was WORSE than a guy who AVERAGES 39.6 in EVERYTHING that they do. So Mark Higgs and the Miami Dolphins should just SPIKE the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!
Didn't they have a week 1 bye that year due to Hurricane Andrew?
Yes it was Andrew that moved the date. Not U2.
@@ericjdeaton I did some research, I believe his point was as follows. Miami was supposed to host NE. Hurricane Andrew meant that wasn't happening. In theory, they should have made that game at NE, and switched the scheduled game at NE to at MIA, but a U2 concert at Foxboro meant that couldn't happen, so both teams had a Bye week one and played at MIA during their scheduled bye week (they were both scheduled to have a bye the same week)
Identity theft is not a joke Jim
Change the title to "How mistaken identity had nothing to do with ending a player's career. " I'm sure the fact that he had a significant knee injury was just a coincidence.
It was coincidence, nothing more. That knee injury caused Higgs problems for the rest of his career and was the reason he retired at 29.
He was not a big guy for an NFL running back (5'7", 195), and this was the reason he wasn't chosen until the 8th round. Higgs was hell on wheels when he got the ball at Kentucky, and Kentucky wasn't exactly known for being good in football. He beat the odds and proved himself in the pros, but getting badly hurt was probably inevitable.
I thought Mark Higgs was a pretty solid runner, and it felt to me at the time that he might pull off a 1,000-yard season in either 1991 or '92, but that didn't quite happen.
I remember that 19-17 game between the Jets & Dolphins; the Dolphins offense really struggled down the stretch (only 6 TD's in the final 5 1/2 games), and the defense carried them. I still recall Joe Theismann stating, after Tony Martin's 55-yard TD off a screen-legal pick kinda deal in that game, that the TD play would set up the rest of Tony Martin's career (Martin went on to do some very consistently productive things). Completely different than what happened with Higgs.
What a crummy turn of events for Higgs though; that identity theft situation had to be a distraction for him, even if he initially brushed it off.
To be fair, most offensive players not named Larry Centers did next-to-nothing for the 1994 and '95 Arizona Cardinals:-).
Definitely just a coincidence, but damn the timing of it.
Mason Crosby should have just spiked the ball on every play
Click.....click......click......CLICKBAIT!!!!!!
U2? It was Hurricane Andrew that displaced the week 1 game. Where are you getting your misinformation from? OAN?
Eric you are spot on. The Dolphins were to open the 1992 season by hosting New England but Hurricane Andrew one of the rare cat 5 Hurricanes hit South Florida a couple of weeks earlier and they were using Joe Robbie Stadium for a base for recovery aid so both the Dolphins and Pats skipped opening week and played their game later during a scheduled bye week. The Dolphins started the 1992 season in week 2 on MNF at Cleveland vs the Browns in the only Don Shula vs Bill Belichick coaching game with Shula winning 27-23.
pretty long attempt to connect the 2 things ...I feel dumber for watching this one
What an embarrassing title and topic. Higgs career fizzled out because of his injury. Kirby outperformed him...happens all the time in the NFL. Why not just change the title to "Mark Higgs career - the underdog".
The knee injury didn’t help either
Another misleading title. It was the injury, not the identity theft.
I wondered what happened to him.
Ridiculous title for video. Why damage the reputation of your otherwise good work? An NFL player suffers an injury that derails and ultimately ends his career - not stunning news.
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