Montana State great Tony Boddie enters Montana Pro Football Hall of Fame
Tony Boddie’s Hall of Fame nod tied Montana State’s 2,449-yard running back career to a pro path that reached the USFL, the Broncos and Super Bowl XXII.
Tony Boddie entered the Montana Pro Football Hall of Fame in Billings on June 27, adding another permanent marker to a career that stretched from Montana State to the USFL and the NFL. The 2026 class also included Brock Coyle, Timm Rosenbach, Rick Ogle, Ron Heller, Andre Patterson, Rick Halmes and the late Ed Cummings, turning the weekend into a statewide football celebration.
The Hall, created in 2016 to honor players, coaches and volunteers across Big Sky Country, held its 2026 induction weekend June 26-27, with the banquet staged Saturday, June 27, at the Billings Hotel and Convention Center. Boddie’s place in that group mattered beyond nostalgia because it highlighted one of Montana State’s clearest pro-development resumes, one that still reflects on the Bobcats’ national profile.
Boddie played at Montana State from 1979-82 and finished as the school’s sixth all-time leading rusher with 2,449 yards. That production translated into a pro path that began with the Los Angeles Express in the USFL, where he rushed for 642 yards and four touchdowns across three seasons. For a program that still sells physical backs and durable line play, Boddie’s numbers remain an easy line to draw from Bozeman’s past to its current recruiting pitch.
His NFL chapter came with the Denver Broncos. Boddie joined Denver in 1986 and appeared in one game that season, then played five games in 1987 and scored his only NFL touchdown in a Week 13 win over the New England Patriots. He appeared in all three Broncos postseason games that year and served as a pregame captain in Super Bowl XXII against Washington before a back injury ended his NFL career in 1988.
Long before Montana State, Boddie had already established himself as a two-sport star at Renton High School in Washington, where he was named Mr. Football and Mr. Baseball. He was offered a minor league tryout with the Pittsburgh Pirates before choosing football, a decision that ultimately carried him into college records, pro stops in the USFL and NFL, and now the Montana Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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