Michael Bishop - 1997 & 1998 Kansas State Wildcats; Greatest Arm Ever

90s Sports Nostalgia presents - Michael Bishop and the 1997 and 1998 Kansas State Wildcats; Greatest Arm Ever. I greatly appreciate your interest in this 90s college football video. Thank you so much and enjoy this sports history documentation.

NOTE: Michael Bishop was selected for the College Football Hall of Fame ( January 2023 ).

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Michael Bishop Fiesta Bowl Photo
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
0:48 Bill Snyder comes to Kansas State
1:25 Michael Bishop comes to Kansas State
1:49 The 1997 Kansas State Wildcats with Michael Bishop
2:36 The 1998 Kansas State Wildcats with Michael Bishop
5:34 Michael Bishop's career after Kansas State / Outro

[sSportsNostalgia]

Thanks as always for your interest in this video. All I have to say, is that Michael Bishop was one of the most talented quarterbacks I ever saw: and I'm going to say he had the best arm I ever saw. What are your thoughts about Michael Bishop and who had the best arm you ever saw?

[scottmiller]

You are killing it my man. I am a K-State graduate and Bishop is my favorite player of All-Time. So much raw talent. I think he was ahead of his time as the NFL goes. Great video.

[jonpike]

Bill Snyder was amazing coach at Kanas State. He made Chuck Long into one the best QBs to play in the BigTen. I'm an Iowa fan. Bishop was fun to watch.

[roy]

Bishop gave my jayhawks and my father's tigers a hard time in the big 12 back in the day. What an arm!

[charismatic]

2 days after this video. Bishop is in the HOF

[lannybackes]

At a pregame warmup for the Fiesta bowl, Michael Bishop was standing on the 10 and throwing 90 yards to the end zone. Watched in disbelief with my own eyes!

[CoreyT]

He was like a right handed Vick. Before Vick!

[chriskim]

I was in 5th grade when ksu lost to a&m in the big 12 conference title game. It was so so heart breaking losing this game. Always thought kstate will be back, back to potentially play in the national title game. If you grew up in the heyday of kstate football in the late 90's to eaely 00's, 10 win season was expected and 11 win season was a push depending on Nebraska game out come. Who knew kstate at best was winning a big 12 title was semi expected and not playing in the cotton bowl was a down year. I would literally go back to those times as a kstate fan.

[kirkdubois]

My Senior year a had a class with Michael in 1997. He was one of the nicest football players that I had known. There was a rumor about his arm strength, regarding him throwing the football almost the entire length of the field. Back then we didn't have Google to verify rumors...today we do!

"Like Newton, Michael Bishop never lacked confidence. When he stepped foot on Kansas States Manhattan campus, the media asked him who he would compare himself to. His answer: John Elway and former Nebraska great and All-American Tommie Frazier.

Outside of the fact that he could throw a football 93 yards, was known to have broken a teammate’s finger with the extreme velocity of his throw and that once loose in the open field, he maintained the burst and elusiveness of an elite tailback, his best quality was a competitiveness that could not be taught."

[JDssts]

Bishop was inducted into this years class of the cfbhof, like 8 days after this was posted.

[oneloveoneheart]

That has to be one of the biggest robberies of all-time!
Smacked Ricky team 48-7 wtf

[arronderian]

Such a talented guy, it's unreal how fantastic of a player he was and hardly got a shot on Sundays..I wonder if he played cornerback on NCAA if he would have had a better pro career.. Thanks for the video..

[r.williamcomm]

Wow grateful for this video. Read Bishop’s wiki & it’s fantastic. Imagine him on the same 2000 Patriots team as Tom Brady. They say Favre was harnessing a wild stallion. Bishop was never harnessed. Just reading his wiki I can picture pro coaches screaming “no! throw it away!” followed by either “Yes!” or “not again.” Love that style of play. There needs to be a league that requires one 50 yard in the attempt per quarter. That arm was amazing. I watched his Hail Mary TD with the 1999 Patriots vs the Colts just before halftime. That ball was as high as an Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary. Love that arm. I would like to think that today some coach would find a way to get him into NFL games. Thanks again for the video.

[blakebrown]

Michael Bishop was like the right-handed version of Michael Vick. He had the best throwing skills ever. He was very talented and electric quarterback from Kansas State. Bill Synder saw something in him and made him a quarterback.

[NewEarthSon]

If This is not a example of a guy playing in the wrong era/Born in the wrong time, I do not know what is! He should have been a top 10 pick in 1999 and if he was born 20 years later would have for sure been a top 5 pick in 2019.

[Tyler-xdrb]

If not the greatest arm, surely one of them.
And some, when they're running, you can see the power in their speed. Michael was one of those. Another K-Stater, David Allen, was also. Check out the vid, Special Teams U, on this site.

[trevorthiessen]

Bishop was truly electric while at Kstate. That 98 team is still my favorite team thats played in Manhattan. I also remember all the rumors about Bishop throwing the ball 95 yds theough the air, i heard that was legit.

[juddvance]

Nebraska fans cried about that facemask like it snatched defeat from the hands of victory. They were behind 4 points and it was 4th down on their own 32 with 2:32 left in the game! They were not in control and they weren't built for passing. What their fans conveniently forget is that they got 7 points off a fumble return on a Frank Murphy fumble that was caused by the ground. They should have been down by 11. They lost to the better team. End of story.

[camronshay]

Bishop is my fav player of all time. Loss to texas anm was devastating. They should have been national champions that year. Also, he should have had a pro career. Couldnt believe bilichek cut him

[incarnateflame]

this dude was a beast and i think k-state could have won a championship if bishop and darren sproles ended up on the same team somehow. sproles is probably my favorite NCAA athlete ever and one of my favorites in the league, too, cuz im a saints fan.