Editing Johnny Lujack (section)

==Professional career==
Lujack was paid [[United States dollar|USD$]]17,000 for his 1948 rookie season with the Bears and $20,000 for his fourth and final season.<ref name=WhiteM-1994-09-14/>  In his rookie season he played [[defensive back]] and kicker, during which he had eight interceptions for 131 yards and kicked 44 out of 46 extra points.<ref name=WhiteM-1994-09-14/><ref>{{citation |url= https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LujaJo00.htm |title=Johnny Lujack |publisher=Sports Reference LLC. |journal=Pro-Football-Reference.com }}</ref>

In the summer of 1949, Lujack starred in a radio program on ABC, ''The Adventures of Johnny Lujack'', which was a summertime replacement for the ''[[Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy]]'' show.  It was a 30-minute program and broadcast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.<ref>{{citation |title='Lujack' Replaces 'Jack Armstrong' |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=June 4, 1949 }}</ref>  The show was broadcast from the studios of [[WGN (AM)|WGN]] in [[Chicago]] over the [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] (MBS) and ran for 13 weeks.<ref>{{citation |title=Federal Communications Commission reports |volume=32 |page=1003 |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] (printed by [[United States Government Printing Office]]) |year=1962 }}</ref>

[[File:John Lujack 1948 Bowman.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Lujack on a 1948 Bowman football card]]
In the final game of the 1949 season, the 9–3 Bears defeated their hometown rivals, the [[Chicago Cardinals]] (6–5–1), by a score of 52–21 on December 11.  In that game, Lujack threw six touchdown passes and set an NFL record with 468 passing yards.<ref>{{citation |author=Warren, Harry |title=Lujack Sets Mark in 52–21 Rout of Cards |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=December 12, 1949 |page=C1 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194912110chi.htm |title=Chicago Cardinals 21 at Chicago Bears 52 |date=December 11, 1949 |publisher=Sports Reference LLC. |journal=Pro-Football-Reference.com }}</ref> The record was broken later by [[Norm Van Brocklin]]. He was the last Bears quarterback to throw at least five touchdown passes in a game until [[Mitchell Trubisky]] threw six against the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] in 2018.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24850456/mitch-trubisky-enjoys-breakout-game-six-td-passes-bears | title=Bears' Trubisky breaks out with six TD passes | date=September 30, 2018 }}</ref>

[[Sid Luckman]] and [[George Blanda]] played behind Lujack in the rotation at quarterback for the 1949 and 1950 seasons.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/1949.htm |title=1949 Chicago Bears |publisher=Sports Reference LLC. |journal=Pro-Football-Reference.com }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/1950.htm |title=1950 Chicago Bears |publisher=Sports Reference LLC. |journal=Pro-Football-Reference.com }}</ref>

During the 1950 season, Lujack set an NFL record with 11 rushing touchdowns by a quarterback.  This record was tied by [[Tobin Rote]] with the Green Bay Packers in 1956, and broken by the New England Patriots' [[Steve Grogan]] in 1976.<ref>{{citation |title=Patriots 27, Saints 6 |publisher=[[United Press International]] |newspaper=[[Telegraph Herald]] |date=December 5, 1976 |page=13 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |author=Bedard, Greg A. |date=December 4, 2011 |title=Grogan reflects on his record-setting feet |url= http://bostonglobe.com/sports/2011/12/04/grogan-reflects-his-record-setting-feet/U9xeePy4Z25BSgtfAwtDMI/story.html |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |publisher=The New York Times Company and BostonGlobe.com }}</ref>  Lujack, named to the 1950 All-Pro First-team, also set a Bears record for 109 total points in a season with 11 touchdowns, three (out of five) field-goals, and 34 (out of 35) extra points.<ref>{{citation |title=Walker, Geri, Motley, Fears Unanimous All-pro Choices |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[The Day (New London)|The New London Evening Day]] |date=December 28, 1950 }}</ref>  That record was surpassed by [[Gale Sayers]] in 1965 with 132 total points.<ref>{{citation |title=Sayers Awarded Game Ball for 2d Time |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=December 13, 1965 |page=25 }}</ref>