All American Bowl Stripes 49 Stars 14
Eden Prairie Minnesota Decmber 13, 2008

Outstanding Leadership dominates All American Bowl coaching staff's for 2008 game at the Metordome in Minneapolis, Minnesota December 20th, 2008

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The Stripe team is lead by former Minnesota Gopher Rickey Foggie, Foggie lead the Golden Gophers to two Bowl appearances and played with the B.C. Lions in the CFL Grey Cup. Along with Foggie, Scott Sandbo of the Minnesota Maulers, Jordan Taylor of the Dakota Lawdawgs and Keldric Stokes of Bacone College will be getting the Stripes team ready.

The Stars team will be lead by former Viking Linebacker Craig Sauer, Dale Heffron and Dale Nordick of the Fargo Moorhead Liberty . Sauer played in the NFL for 6 years at linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings. Heffron played in the CFL for the BC Lions and in the USFL and is starting his second year as owner and coach of the Liberty.

Also on hand will be NFL alumni and professional announcer Irv Cross will do the coin toss and former Vikings JT Turner will present the Jim Marshall and Mick Tinglehoff awards to the games best Defensive and Offensive Line players.
The All-American Bowl was founded in 1996 to promote the sport of football, give DII/DIII and Minor League players the opportunity to show their skills against the best at their level and allow professional and minor league scouts more access to top players in America.


Irv Cross
Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Minnesota.
Below is Irv's background with sports and teams across the US.

1957-61 Northwestern University
1961-63 Philadelphia Eagles
1964-65 Philadelphia Eagles (NFL Pro Bowl)
1966-69 Los Angeles Rams
1971-94 CBS Sports
Currently the Executive Director of BBBSCM


Rickey Foggie
(born July 15, 1966 in Laurens, South Carolina)[1] is a former quarterback. Foggie was the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Golden Gophers for four seasons, before going on to play professionally in – first the Canadian Football League, and then later in the Arena Football League[2]. Foggie is currently an assistant football coach in both the af2 and in high School at Burnsville High.

He became a successful option quarterback in the South Carolina high school ranks and was recruited by Lou Holtz to play collegiately at the University of Minnesota, where Holtz was coming in to take over the program, after surprisingly leaving powerhouse Arkansas. The Gophers were coming off a 1-10 season under Joe Salem, from the previous year, and it didn’t take long for Foggie to assert himself as the starting quarterback for Minnesota as a true freshman. The Gophers finished the 1984 season with a 4-7 record in Holtz’s first season as coach and Foggie’s first year as signal caller, as Foggie started to show off some of his versatile skills, both as a runner and a passer and give Minnesota fans a glimpse of a more promising outlook for the Gophers, with Foggie entrenched at quarterback. The season was topped off by a surprising upset over Iowa and star quarterback Chuck Long, which returned the Floyd of Rosedale to Minnesota after a two year absence.

In 1985, Foggie’s sophomore season, the Gophers made further strides to be a solid program, as they finished off the regular season at 6-5 and earned an invitation to the Independence Bowl, which would be their first bowl game in 8 years. Among the Gophers five defeats were close losses to Oklahoma (who would go on to win the National Championship) and Ohio State. Meanwhile, when the Notre Dame head coaching position became available, Lou Holtz was offered and accepted the job to coach the Irish. Assistant John Gutekunst was named the new head coach and led the Gophers in their bowl game against Clemson, which the Gophers won to raise their final season record to 7-5.

The Gophers would also finish 6-5 the following year in 1986 and earn another bowl invitation – this time to the Liberty Bowl. They would lose to Tennessee in this matchup. Foggie continued to develop into a better and more mature quarterback and was also helped along by the addition of talented freshman running back, Darrell Thompson, who emerged as a star in the making, that season. The highlight of that season was the Gophers upset of Rose Bowl bound Michigan at The Big House – earning Minnesota the Little Brown Jug for the first time in 9 years.
In Foggie’s senior year in 1987, the Gophers again finished 6-5, however this year they failed to receive a bowl invite.
Could he wouldn’t succeed in the National Football League, Foggie was bypassed in the 1988 NFL Draft. Although many felt he would have a better chance of making the NFL at another position, Foggie opted to remain a quarterback and joined the Canadian Football League. He started out in the CFL with the BC Lions backing up Matt Dunigan, whom he would follow to Toronto in 1990. Later, he would join the Toronto Argonauts, where he would be an instrumental part of the league’s highest scoring team.[2] Foggie would later play for the Edmonton Eskimos and the Memphis Mad Dogs in the CFL.

Next he would embark on a career in the Arena Football League, where he would play 8 seasons spanning 10 years. He started off his AFL career back in Minnesota, where he had starred collegiately, as the starting quarterback of the expansion Minnesota Fighting Pike, who would only play that one season at the Target Center in 1996. Then he would quarterback the New Jersey Red Dogs from 1997 to 2000, where he would attain his greatest success in the AFL, throwing for over 8,700 yards and 155 touchdowns in his first three seasons with the club.[1] In 2001, he played for the Florida Bobcats,[5] where he may have had his best season in the AFL – setting personal season highs with 3619 yards passing and 69 touchdowns.[6] In 2002, he played for the Detroit Fury and the Toronto Phantoms, and then after a season off in 2003, he played one final season in 2004 with the Carolina Cobras. He finished his AFL career with 17921 yards passing, 325 touchdowns and a 96.38 quarterback rating.[1] At 38, Foggie retired on the playing field, but continued on in arena football as a coach. Foggie moved to the lower tier af2 to pursue this. In 2005 as the offensive coordinator of the Amarillo Dusters, he orchestrated the highest scoring offense in the af2, with a 55.8 average.[2] In 2006, he got his only head coaching job to date, when he took over the Everett Hawks after an 0-3 start.[7] After only six games as the head man,[3] there, Foggie was lured over to the Macon Knights by head coach Derek Stingley to be their offensive coordinator. [3] In 2007, Foggie followed Stingley to Albany, Georgia to be the offensive coordinator for the South Georgia Wildcats.[3] Foggie also agreed to be the offensive coordinator of Burnsville High School, a suburb of Minneapolis,[3]after the af2 season ends. Rickey Foggie lives in Minneapolis, during the offseason.[8]


Coach Dale Heffron
has an extensive football background, both in playing and coaching. He graduated in 1972 from Grand Rapids High School and then went on to play at Itasca Community College where he was named All-American Quarterback for the 1974-75 season. He was also named MVP for Region XIII. In 1976-77 he was the All-MIAC All-Region player at Concordia College in Moorhead and in 1978 he signed a three-year bonus contract with the Oakland Raiders. Following that, he also played for the BC Lions (British Columbia, Canada) of the CFL and the Oakland Invaders of the USFL Outdoor League.

Coach Heffron's coaching experience began back when he was just 23 years old and was named head coach for Pioneer High School in San Jose, California, followed by being named to Offensive Coordinator at age 25 at West Valley College in San Jose, CA. His coaching experience has continued through the years, including defensive coordinator for Concordia College in St. Paul and becoming Head Coach at Hibbing Community College, where he was named coach of the year for 1991-92.

Coach Heffron's Hibbing Community College team holds numerous records, including single game passing records of 764 yards on Sept. 7, 1991 & 667 yards on Oct. 28, 1990. His 1991 Cardinal team were undefeated State Champions, including 3 All-Americans, one of whom was Johny Harris who went on to play Professional Football for 10 years with the Oakland Raiders and New York Giants.


Craig Sauer
The Liberty's Defensive Coordinator, is a graduate of Sartell High School in Minnesota. After graduating high school, Craig attended college at the University of Minnesota, where he began his football career. He was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the sixth round (188th pick overall) of the 1996 NFL draft. He went on to be signed by the Falcons on June 6, 1996.On February 11, 2000, Sauer was granted unconditional free agency and signed by the Minnesota Vikings as Linebacker #59 on February 23, 2000.

With 6 years of NFL experience, Craig will be an asset to the Fargo-Moorhead Liberty team.