Beginning with Big Ben, Huskies Who Have Gone to the Super Bowl The list runs nearly four-dozen players deep who have left Seattle and played their way into the NFL's showcase event. Author: Jan 26, 2021 Ben Davidson was the first one from the University of Washington to appear on football's biggest stage. It seemed only fitting. Seven years after playing in the last of two Rose Bowls for the Huskies, Big Ben, mustache and all, lumbered onto the field for the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl II, which was held in 1968 at Miami's Orange Bowl. Though his team lost 33-14 to the Green Bay Packers, the 6-foot-8, 275-pound Davidson found this game to be an ideal platform for someone like him who didn't mind drawing a little attention to himself, and the more the better. He was one of the NFL's most notorious villains because of his size and corresponding rough style of play, later a TV pitchman because of it and finally a character actor.