After a brief NFL career he played in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders, BC Lions, and Toronto Argonauts where he won the Grey Cup Championship in 1997. In 1999 he played for the Berlin Thunder of the NFL Europe League. Ware is part of the radio broadcast team for the Houston Texans. He has worked on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN on ABC. Ware was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.