Inducted Into The Football Hall Of Fame

The NFL was founded on September 17, 1920 and was known as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). It was renamed in 1922 as the National Football League or NFL. In 1920 there were eleven football franchises to form the first professional football league compared to the 32 teams that form the league now. The original teams are: Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers, Dayton Triangles, Akron Professionals, Rochester (N.Y.) Jeffersons, Rock Island Independents, Muncie Flyers, Decatur Staleys, Chicago Cardinals, and Hammond Pros. Jim Thorpe was elected as the league's first president. In 1970 NFL's rival league AFL merged their schedules and formed two conferences in which the AFL became AFC and NFL became NFC.

This article shows the results of a compilation of top ten lists from ESPN NFL experts. The experts made lists of who they thought were the top ten players of all time. The article goes on to give a brief description of each of the players and what made them great.

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For the 1888 season, he was sold to the Pittsburgh Alleghenys team. This was the first time that he played the whole season. The crowds in Pittsburgh took to his prowess on the field, thus creating a large fan

Steve McNair was one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time and perhaps could have been in the Hall of Fame. You will learn about his life, family, career and why he wasn’t able to make it to the Hall of Fame.

Wesley Branch Rickey was born on December 20, 1881 in a town in Ohio called Stockdale. He was raised as a really religious man. He was taught to love his neighbors and care for them. After teaching for two years at Turkey Creek, Branch enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He played semi-professional baseball and football there. Branch Rickey was a player and coach at Ohio Wesleyan for baseball. ​In 1906 he married Jane Moulton, his childhood sweetheart. In 1907, under Branch, OWU won the baseball conference

The regular season hasn’t started yet, but Dwayne Bowe is emerging as a team leader and positive influence on the city of Cleveland. Despite only a couple days of training camp, Bowe is getting it done with words of encouragement. Whether it is the truth or just hype, Bowe is giving his teammates some much needed confidence.

Simeon James Rice; for nearly ten years the name drove fear into opposing defenders with the same force that Rice drove Quarter Backs into the ground. The 1996 3rd overall pick by Arizona racked up an impressive career and a plethora of awards and accolades in a career a decade long, most of that spent with our beloved Buccaneers.

In 2007, Adrian Peterson was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings with the seventh overall pick in the draft. Adrian Peterson led the NFL in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns in the 2009 season. That season came to an end in the playoffs against the New Orleans Saints because Peterson fumbled multiple times in that game. In 2011, Peterson tore his ACL and MCL and he was done for the rest of the year. The following year he was the comeback player of the year and also the league's MVP in the 2012 season.(Adrian Peterson Biography)

Despite a long history of success, the Broncos have been vastly under-represented in the NFL Hall of Fame. Although, there are four former Broncos in the Hall of Fame, there are teams that have had much less success that have more players in the Hall. As Michael Jaycox at Mile High Sports once stated: “There are five franchises with over 20 Hall of Famers, eight with over 15, and 14 with over 10; yet, the Broncos can muster just four.”[1] This goes to show that there seems to be some bias against the Broncos in Canton, Ohio. Even with those four exceptions, three of those took obscene amounts of time to be enshrined. There have been several players and organizational members with far less notable careers who were enshrined without question.

This college football season was absolutely magnificent. The playoff race came down to the final week, and there were stars everywhere. The resurgence of the running back was a pleasure to watch, and now, two of the most prolific running backs we've seen in a while might get to take home some serious hardware; the Heisman Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in the country every year. There were some very deserving candidates who weren't invited to New York City, (Sorry Baker Mayfield and Keenan Reynolds) but this years crop of candidates is still very talented and worthy of the title Heisman Trophy Winner.

In 1957, Brown was selected to join the Cleveland Brown squad and immediately joined the team’s training camp. Despite most professional football players taking the time to adjust the high level of play of the NFL, Brown quickly adjusted and made his presence felt. This showed another important quality of coach ability that Jim Brown possessed. Jim got better each game, day, week and season. His ability to be receptive to instruction, taking criticism and challenges to improve was outstanding. In 1958, Brown won the rushing title for the 1,527 yards he ran and tied the single touchdown record with 18. As years went by, Jim continued the onslaught, rushing on the ground and catching long passes into the end zone as teams watched. Between 1958

Jim brown was born February, 1936 in St. simons Island in Georgia. He was 2 weeks old when his dad left the family, his mother left to become a maid in New York. That left James (aka Jim) with his great grandmother. . Jim was 8 years old when his mother wanted him to live with her in new York. Living very good brown was playing football for a large white school Manhattan High School. . During his senior year Brown averaged an astonishing 14.9 yards per carry and that gave him a spot at Syracuse university. < http:// earl Campbell. com/>. The first game of 1977 the Horne's won almost all their games winning them all. Earl played with the flu and still made 170 yards. Also defeating their rival enemies the Aggies. < http:// earl Campbell. com/>.Earl was voted for the heisman trophy ,also the number 1 draft pick in 1978 to the Houston oilers. Earl played for the for 4 years and made

On January 3, 1981 Olivia and Archie Manning gave birth to a future superstar for the New York Giants. His name is Elisha Nelson Manning he was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He lived with two brothers Cooper and Peyton. Growing up his father played for the New Orleans Saints, Houston Oilers, and Minnesota Vikings. Eli along with his brother Peyton would end up following in their dad's footsteps and both started playing football at a young age. Eli would go on to play college football for Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) there he put up amazing stats such as 10,119 passing yards, 81 touchdown passes, and a passer rating of 137.7. His senior year he won multiple awards such as Nations all-around best player and SEC Player of the Year award.

The first step on the road to redemption for the Steelers and hopefully soon the entire NFL, is to give back to the players. The Steelers, by making their contributions to the players public, can jumpstart a chain reaction with other teams in the league and they can follow suit to overall make the brutal game of football a safer endeavor. These retired players were once adored by fans and now serve as living legends and are still viewed in an incredibly high stature, so if the Steelers organization tries to push this aside and not give credit and compensation where it is due, it will make the Steelers look cheap and hard-hearted. In order to settle the case the