Editing Howie Long (section)

==After football==
After his retirement from the [[National Football League|NFL]] following the [[1993 NFL season|1993]] season, Long pursued an acting career, focused mainly on [[action film]]s—including ''[[Firestorm (1998 film)|Firestorm]]'', a 1998 feature in which he starred. He also appeared as a co-star in the suspense movie ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'', alongside star [[John Travolta]]. He played a minor role in the movie ''[[3000 Miles to Graceland]]'' alongside [[Kevin Costner]], [[Kurt Russell]] and [[Courteney Cox]]. In ''[[That Thing You Do!]]'', Long appears as Mr. White's (Tom Hanks) "partner" Lloyd in the extended cut of the movie, released on DVD in 2007. Long's part was entirely cut from the theatrical release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/28059/that-thing-you-do-the-directors-cut/ |title=DVD Talk.com |publisher=DVD Talk.com |access-date=May 1, 2013}}</ref>

Long also made numerous [[cameo appearance]]s on [[television series|TV shows]] and [[television commercials|commercials]]. Long was a spokesman for [[Radio Shack]], making commercials with actress [[Teri Hatcher]]. He has also been featured in many other national commercials and advertising campaigns including those of [[Coors Brewing Company|Coors]] Light, [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]], [[Campbell Soup Company|Campbell's Chunky Soup]], [[Hanes]], [[Frito Lay]], [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola]], [[PepsiCo|Pepsi]], [[Pizza Hut]], [[Taco Bell]], [[Nabisco]], [[Kraft Foods|Kraft]], the [[Bud Bowl]] campaign, [[Honda]], and currently for [[Chevrolet]].{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In March 1986, Long told ''[[Inside Sports]]'': <blockquote>"When I'm finished playing, I'd like to stay in touch with football, through broadcasting. I'm qualified to give a certain perspective and I'm articulate enough to handle it."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usd.edu/~jhenriqu/web/howie/inside.html |title=Inside Sports, March, 1986 |publisher=Usd.edu |access-date=May 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909113332/http://www.usd.edu/~jhenriqu/web/howie/inside.html |archive-date=September 9, 2007}}</ref></blockquote>

After his retirement, Long began as a studio analyst for the [[Fox NFL Sunday|Fox Network's NFL coverage]], where he often plays the "[[double act|straight man]]" to the comic antics of co-host [[Terry Bradshaw]], as well as writing a column for [[Foxsports.com]].<ref>[http://msn.foxsports.com/writer/archive?authorId=92 Foxsports column archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012061024/http://msn.foxsports.com/writer/archive?authorId=92 |date=October 12, 2007}}</ref> In addition, he hosts an annual award show on Fox, ''Howie Long's Tough Guys'', which honors the NFL players whom he deems the toughest and gives "the toughest" a [[Chevrolet]] truck. Long won a [[Sports Emmy Award]] in 1996 as "Outstanding Sports Personality/Analyst".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Howie_Long/187420 |title=Howie Long biography |publisher=Hollywood.com |access-date=May 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907202454/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/187420/Howie_Long |archive-date=September 7, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Long is also the author of ''Football for Dummies'', a book to help average fans understand the basics of professional football; it is part of the ''[[For Dummies]]'' series by Wiley Publishing. He is an alumnus of, and volunteers his time for, the [[Boys and Girls Clubs of America]]. He was named the 2000 [[Walter Camp Man of the Year]] by the [[Walter Camp Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Man of the Year – Walter Camp Football Foundation |url=https://waltercamp.org/man-of-the-year/ |website=waltercamp.org |access-date=6 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

After his football career, Long became known for his use of a popular stock sound effect in the movie ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]''. During his death scene, the sound effect is used, which became known as the [[Howie scream]].{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

* ''In'N Out'' (1984) – Groom
* ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'' (1996) – Kelly
* ''[[Firestorm (1998 film)|Firestorm]]'' (1998) – Jesse
* ''[[Dollar for the Dead]]'' (1998) – Reager
* ''[[3000 Miles to Graceland]]'' (2001) – Jack