[1] Burroughs excelled in Ventura Country for Fillmore High School, being selected as an all-leaguer in football, basketball, and baseball.

Under the help of general manager Tex Schramm, Burroughs served in San Francisco, California, rather than in Korea, where he played football in the special services unit.

The Rams won the Western Conference fourth time in the past seven seasons to reach the NFL Championship Game and face the defending champion Cleveland Browns.

Burroughs picked off one pass from Otto Graham (who threw three on the day) and returned it 24 yards, but the Browns defeated the Rams 38–14.

[9] The Eagles finished as one of the best teams in the league and thus advanced to the 1960 NFL Championship Game against the Green Bay Packers on December 26.

[11][12][13] Burroughs recorded his third and final game with three interceptions on December 3, 1961, against the Pittsburgh Steelers (who used Bobby Layne, Rudy Bukich, and John Henry Johnson as quarterbacks).

At the time of the retirement of Burroughs, he was the seventh player to have recorded fifty interceptions in NFL history; in the prevailing half-century, he moved from tied for fifth best to 35th.