He played college football at Vanderbilt University and was selected in the sixth round of the 1970 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
One of four children of a U.S. Air Force officer,[1][2][3] Toomay was born in California and lived in various locations, including Hawaii, upstate New York, and Northern Virginia.
He attended Thomas Edison High School in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was an all-state player in football, basketball, and baseball, graduating in 1966.
The NFL didn't start recognizing quarterback sacks as an official statistic until 1982; however, the Cowboys have their own records, dating back before the 1982 season.
During his five seasons with Dallas, Toomay was a productive and durable player (never missing a game) and was a part of two Super Bowl teams: runners-up in V and champions in VI.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected him from the Bills roster in the 1976 NFL expansion draft and he was the starter at right defensive end for their winless inaugural season (0–14),[6] and he registered 49 tackles and 3 sacks.
[7] In a "worst to first" deal, the Bucs traded him to the reigning Super Bowl champion Oakland Raiders in July 1977, in exchange for a draft choice.