Bob Shaw, father of former BJ newsroom editor Webb Shaw, who retired in December 2014 after 22 years with J.J. Keller, still holds the record for most TD passes in an NFL game. Kellen Winslow and Jerry Rice tied his achievement, set in 1950, but no one in 65 years has exceeded it.

The Browns’ Dante Lavelli had 4 TD passes in 1949.

Wrote Webb:

“Sixty-five years ago this weekend, my Dad set the NFL record for most touchdown passes caught in one game. On Oct. 2, 1950, Bob Shaw hauled in 5 TD passes for the Chicago Cardinals in a game against the Baltimore Colts. The record has been matched by Kellen Winslow Sr. and Jerry Rice, but never beaten. Way to go, Dad! You're gone but not forgotten.”

Webb’s father, the late Ohio native and Fremont Ross High football star Bob Shaw, was an all-American end on Ohio State’s 1942 national championship team coached by the legendary Paul Brown, who eventually guided the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL. Later Bob Shaw was a tight end with the 1949 Los Angeles Rams and was receivers coach with the Baltimore Colts in 1958 when they beat the New York Giants to win the NFL championship in what has been called "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

 

Webb’s mom was Mary, who caught Bob’s eye when she was selling candy as an usherette at the Ohio Theater while the Buckeye players were downtown to watch a movie. Webb’s wife is Katie Gaab-Shaw.

 

Bob Shaw coached briefly at Cuyahoga Falls High School.

He was born in 1921 in Richwood, Ohio and died in 2011 at the age of 89 in Westerville, Ohio.

Webb was Director Editorial of Resources at J.J. Keller and part of the SIIA Content Division Buyer-Seller Working Group, which met monthly to act as an advisory group to the Buyer-Seller Project, discuss issues and challenges they are facing and to network.

The NFL’s best one-game pass TV legends:

 

Rank	Player (age), + - HOFer, Bold - Active	TD	Boxscore
1.	Kellen Winslow+	5	San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders, November 22, 1981
	Jerry Rice+	5	San Francisco 49ers vs. Atlanta Falcons, October 14, 1990
	Bob Shaw	5	Chicago Cardinals vs. Baltimore Colts, October 2, 1950
4.	Ben Hawkins	4	Philadelphia Eagles vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, September 28, 1969
	Mike Ditka+	4	Chicago Bears vs. Los Angeles Rams, October 13, 1963
	Frank Jackson	4	Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Diego Chargers, December 13, 1964
	Bob Shaw	4	Los Angeles Rams vs. Washington Redskins, December 11, 1949
	Isaac Bruce	4	St. Louis Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 10, 1999
	Don Hutson+	4	Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions, October 7, 1945
	Dante Lavelli+	4	Cleveland Browns vs. Los Angeles Dons, October 14, 1949
	Paul Warfield+	4	Miami Dolphins vs. Detroit Lions, December 15, 1973
	Earnest Gray	4	New York Giants vs. St. Louis Cardinals, September 7, 1980
	Daryl Turner	4	Seattle Seahawks vs. San Diego Chargers, September 15, 1985
	Lance Alworth+	4	San Diego Chargers vs. Denver Broncos, December 1, 1968
	Bob Hayes+	4	Dallas Cowboys vs. Houston Oilers, December 20, 1970
	Joe Horn	4	New Orleans Saints vs. New York Giants, December 14, 2003
	Sterling Sharpe	4	Green Bay Packers vs. Dallas Cowboys, November 24, 1994
	Harlon Hill	4	Chicago Bears vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 31, 1954
	Ahmad Rashad	4	Minnesota Vikings vs. San Francisco 49ers, September 2, 1979
	Art Powell	4	Oakland Raiders vs. Houston Oilers, December 22, 1963
	Jimmie Giles	4	Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Miami Dolphins, October 20, 1985
	Jamaal Charles (27)	4	Kansas City Chiefs vs. Oakland Raiders, December 15, 2013
	Terrell Owens	4	Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Redskins, November 18, 2007
	Jerry Butler	4	Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets, September 23, 1979
	Cloyce Box	4	Detroit Lions vs. Baltimore Colts, December 3, 1950
	Jerry Rice+	4	San Francisco 49ers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, November 14, 1993
	Mark Ingram	4	Miami Dolphins vs. New York Jets, November 27, 1994
	Sterling Sharpe	4	Green Bay Packers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, October 24, 1993
	Marcus Robinson	4	Baltimore Ravens vs. Seattle Seahawks, November 23, 2003
	Randy Moss	4	New England Patriots vs. Buffalo Bills, November 18, 2007
	Eric Decker (26)	4	Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs, December 1, 2013
	Dave Williams	4	St. Louis Cardinals vs. New Orleans Saints, November 2, 1969
	Roy Jefferson	4	Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Atlanta Falcons, November 3, 1968
	Roy Green	4	St. Louis Cardinals vs. Seattle Seahawks, November 13, 1983
	Wesley Walker	4	New York Jets vs. Miami Dolphins, September 21, 1986
	Harold Jackson	4	Los Angeles Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys, October 14, 1973
	Marvin Jones (23)	4	Cincinnati Bengals vs. New York Jets, October 27, 2013
	Elroy Hirsch+	4	Los Angeles Rams vs. New York Yanks, September 28, 1951
	Irving Fryar	4	Philadelphia Eagles vs. Miami Dolphins, October 20, 1996
	Don Beebe	4	Buffalo Bills vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, September 8, 1991