The Las Vegas Raiders devoted the home radio station corner at Allegiant Stadium to pay tribute to the late David Humm. The Las Vegas local and deep rooted Southern Nevada inhabitant is perceived as “The Original Las Vegas Raider” and the corner is presently named The David Humm Broadcast Booth.
“Hummer,” as he was affectionally called, served two spells as a player — 1975-1979 and 1983-1984 — for the Raiders, and one more as a necessary individual from the Silver and Black’s radio station group, giving master examination to game activity in 1995 and 1996 preceding moving over to pregame and postgame appears through 2016. Humm, who died in 2018 at age 65, was a significant player on the Raiders Super Bowl XI and XVIII-bringing home Championship groups, filling in as the holder for place kicks as well as the reinforcement to Ken Stabler for five seasons and Jim Plunkett for two.
The Raiders’ fifth-round draft decision in 1975 out of Nebraska played in 95 games during 10 NFL seasons, including 76 for the Raiders. He additionally played one season with the Buffalo Bills (1980) and two seasons with the Baltimore Colts (1981-1982). Humm featured at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, where he was an All-American quarterback and among the most vigorously enlisted possibilities to at any point emerge from the province of Nevada.
He proceeded to make progress at Nebraska, driving the Cornhuskers to three straight AP Top-10 seasons, set various Big 8 passing records and put fifth in the 1974 Heisman Trophy casting a ballot. He assisted Nebraska with showing up, all triumphs – the 1973 Orange Bowl (1972 season), the 1974 Cotton Bowl (1973 season), and the 1974 Sugar Bowl.
Humm was the very first inductee into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. He was likewise drafted into the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame in 1985 and in 1999, the Las Vegas Review-Journal sports staff casted a ballot Humm as the No. 9 neighborhood competitor of the twentieth 100 years.
