Minnesota Star Tribune

Past Turkey of the Year winners

By Patrick Reusse

November 27, 2008 at 7:14AM

1978: Woody Hayes

1979: Pete Rozelle and Bowie Kuhn

1980: Bobby Knight

1981: George Steinbrenner

1982: Billy Martin

1983: Paul Giel

1984: Les Steckel

1985: Lou Holtz

1986: Dr. Kenneth Keller

1987: Carl Pohlad

1988: Lou Nanne

1989: Mike Lynn

1990: Kent Hrbek

1991: Chris Doleman

1992: 25 years of Golden Gophers football

1993: Norm Green

1994: Jack McCloskey

1995: Warren Moon

1996: Kerri Strug

1997: Dennis Green

1998: Carl Pohlad

1999: Clem Haskins

2000: Jesse Ventura

2001: Randy Moss and Cris Carter

2002: Kevin McHale and Flip Saunders

2003: Glen Mason

2004: Red McCombs

2005: Bob Naegele

2006: Pam Borton

2007: Charlie Weis

about the writer

about the writer

Patrick Reusse

Columnist

Patrick Reusse is a sports columnist who writes three columns per week.

See Moreicon

More from Minnesota Star Tribune

See More

Sports

Patrick Reusse Turkey of the Year past winners, from 1978 to today

card image
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.

Minnesota Star Tribune

Sign up for Star Tribune newsletters

News & Politics

Want to share info with the Star Tribune? How to do it securely

In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece