Parker's Awards and Honours
Parker's jersey #91 currently hangs on the Wall of Honour at the Eskimos' Commonwealth Stadium. "Jackie Parker Park" in Edmonton, Alberta was named in his honor.
Jackie Parker was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1971, the Mississippi State University Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1972, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976, and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. In November 2006, Parker was voted one of the CFL's top 50 players (#3) in a poll conducted by Canadian sports network TSN.
- Grey Cup victories – 1954, 1955, 1956
- CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award – 1957, 1958, 1960
- CFL All-Star – 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961
- Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy (West Division's Most Outstanding Player) – 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961
- Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy (Top Scorer in West Division) – 1959, 1961
- Canadian Football Hall of Fame – 1971
- Edmonton Eskimo Wall of Honour – 1983
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame – 1987
- Mississippi State University Hall of Fame – 1972
- Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame – 1972
- College Football Hall of Fame – 1976
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“He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses them.... He can take you to a bicycle race and make it raise your hair.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)