Baylor brothers celebrate Super Bowl and World Series titles in same year

When the Chicago Cubs won the World Series earlier this month, among those joining in the celebration was Baylor Bear Colin Faulkner, BBA ’98, the Cubs’ senior vice president of sales and marketing.

But Faulkner wasn’t the first Baylor Bear to see his employer win a professional sports title in 2016; in fact, he wasn’t even the only member of his family. That’s because Colin’s brother, Chris Faulkner, BBA ’01, is the senior manager of premium seating for the Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos.

Both brothers got their start in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business. Colin, the older of the two brothers, graduated from Baylor in 1998 and went to work for the Dallas Burn (Major League Soccer) before joining the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. He made the move to Chicago in 2010 and now oversees all ticket sales, corporate partnership sales, and marketing functions for the Cubs.

Chris followed Colin to Baylor and graduated in 2001; he began his career with the Colorado Rockies the following year, then worked for the Texas Rangers and Colorado Crush (Arena Football League) before landing with the Broncos, where he celebrated the franchise’s third Super Bowl win in February.

(You can read more about the brothers in this 2013 story from the Baylor S3 Report.)