Tom Landry

The professional football player and soldier, Pat Tillman, was born on November 6, 1976, in Fremont, California. As Tillman was attending Leland High School, he was very talented in football, and led his team to a Central Coast Division I Football Championship. After high school, Tillman moved on to playing at Arizona State University to win many awards, and get an undefeated season. Following his college career, Tillman was drafted to the Arizona Cardinals. Tillman remained selfless, determined, and loyal throughout his life to everyone around him, which is why we remember him today.

In “A Foot Ball Life: Kurt Warner”, Kurt Warner demonstrates great leadership throughout the longevity of his career. He uses his great talent, composure, and toughness throughout his career to lead multiple teams to victories. Even though he only won one Super Bowl, the teams that Kurt Warner were on improved significantly during his time with them. Throughout all of this Kurt Warner was the ultimate football player, leader, mentor and friend, a suburb man in every sense of the word.

The theme of this book is about the legendary coach Paul Bryant and how he helped Joe Namath overcome the struggle of segregation on and off the football field. Considering the relationship of the athlete and coach during golden era of the game, it addresses the losses, the commitment, and the determination in becoming one of the nation 's elite.

Coach Leahy was married to Florence Reilly and they had eight children together. Leahy’s son and grandson followed in his footsteps and also played football at Notre Dame. In 1966 Leahy started to get sick he suffered from leukemia and arthritis in his spine. He had a rare case of leukemia, so rare that only 9 cases had ever been

Tim Green, the author of “Football Hero,” has had a life full of playing the sport he loved, football. Because of a great high school career, he was able to play as defensive line at Syracuse University. With this in mind, he was able to put the lessons learned while playing a sport into his books. With his experience, in books he gives interesting background about the game and what it takes to be a “football hero”.

Tomlinson was now a horned frog. Before Ladanian got there they only appeared in one bowl game in the previous 12 seasons and only 2 in the last 32 seasons. They got dropped to a minor conference called the western athletic conference (WAC). During his freshman and sophomore year he was second string behind Basil Mitchell. In his sophomore year he did help the frogs to their first bowl win in 41years. They were against the USC Trojans in the Sun Bowl. In 1999 his junior year he broke an NCAA FBS record for the most rushing yards in just a single game with 406 total rushing yards. The record stayed the same until just 2 years ago in 2014 where Melvin Gordon for the Wisconsin Baggers with 408 yards in a single game. Which it was broken just a week later by Oklahoma’s Samaje Perine rushing for 427 yards. Tomlinson finished his junior year rushing for 1.850 yards and adding on 18 touchdowns of his own. Tomlinson’s senior year came in 2000 where he led the NCAA for the second time rushing for over 2000 yards (2,158) and adding 22 touchdown’s to himself. Tomlinson was recognized as a first-team all American. He also won the Doak Walker Award, Mobile Alabama bowl most valuable player (MVP), Got the Jim Brown Trophy, Senior bowl MVP, was a two time All-WAC First team, two time WAC offensive player of the year, and added on top of all that was a finalist in the 2000 Heisman Trophy, but fell short getting voted fourth. After having

In 1983 the Broncos would give John Elway the starting job at Quarterback, where he stayed for the next 15 years. Right away he showed flashes of his ability to win and to make a comebacks

He racked up collegiate sack records during his 4 years in campus. He was drafted by the New York Giants during the second round pick in the NFL Draft of 1993. He initially played only 9 games due to injuries. He even missed the 2 playoff games. He had a breakout year in 1997.

The duo of Fred Blitenikoff and “Bullet” Bob Hayes, were an unknown gift to any gunslinger quarterback. Both these men would eventually see their names in the Hall of Fame but couldn’t be any different. Bob Hayes was a track star from Florida A&M with an exciting summer story to tell his fellow teammates. Before Bullet Bob was winning Super Bowls in Dallas with Staubach, he was in Tokyo winning the 1964 Olympic Gold Medal for the United States in the 100 meter and the 4 x 100 meter. The highly recruited track star had very little football experience but some teams wanted to test his speed as a wideout. On the opposite side, was the son of a hard-working family of Russian immigrants named Fred Biletnikoff. The young Biletnikoff was born poor and watched his family fight to survive the toughness of the world and learned at a very young age to always strive to fight to survive. His high school life exemplified that more than anything as a four sport athlete and the honor as a scholarship to Florida State University. There, he continued to dedicate his life on the gridiron and even in his social life as a member of the Lambdu Alpha Chi Fraternity. Hayes and Biletnikoff would both go on to Hall of Fame careers and the riches of championships but the gold was just get started at this

Football was Freddie Steinmark’s life. His career started in high school playing safety for the Wheat Ridge Farmers. Freddie’s family didn't have a lot of money for college so a scholarship was the only option. Specifically a football scholarship, but he was too small only 5’9” and 165 lbs. It didn't even matter that he had a 4.0 GPA and glowing recommendations; he was too tiny! His coach pulled him aside one day after practice to tell him that the University of Texas wanted to meet with him. Darrell Royal, the head coach at the time, didn't care about his size at all he only saw good football player. That next year, he was drafted into the Texas Longhorns. When it came down to the national championship at the end of the year he kept playing

From their swirling tales of the old AAFC rivalries, throughout the 1950s decade in the NFL, my book will bring back those memories with each turn of the following pages; as their accomplishments will remain alive with the deeds and foibles of those who, by their performance, their personality, or both, gave flavor and substance to those times that were as unique in their own right.

Jack Lambert still looked the same despite the decades that had passed since the mid 1970s. Intense and menacing, the former All Pro Steeler linebacker and Hall Of Famer scowled slightly as he recalled a distant season that most Pittsburgh Steeler Fans have forgotten. For Lambert and many of his teammates, the 1976 Steeler squad was the greatest in team history. Pittsburgh was the team of the decade during the 70s – having claimed four world championships (1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979) during that ten year span. Yet for many former players from that era, it is the 1976 Bicentennial season that they seem to cherish the most.

Back in 2000, Brady at the time, was hanging on as the fourth quarterback on the New England Patriots roster. His championship emergence from the 6th round draft pick is an unforgettable fairytale. To tell the truth, it has been labeled as “one of the best in the history of the game” (Halberstam 32). The “Brady 6” refers to the six quarterbacks selected in the 2000 NFL draft before Brady. Consequently, out of all the quarterbacks drafted before Brady, none hurt “Brady more than Carmazzi because,” as Shea remembered, “Tommy was a huge 49ers fan” (Silver 21). Although Brady didn’t end up playing for his favorite childhood team, he still managed to play in six career Super Bowls, winning four to tie the record amongst quarterbacks, and appear

In the book entitled Out of Their League, David Meggyesy describes his life as a football player from high school through his days with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). Born in 1941, Meggyesy was raised in a low-income household in Solon, Ohio. Like many athletes from impoverished backgrounds, he was able to use the game of football to better himself though both a full scholarship to Syracuse University and financial stability with the Cardinals. During his career, however, Meggyesy became increasingly disillusioned with the game of football and how its athletes were subject to tremendous physical and psychological turmoil from those in

Eric Lander studied/studies Genomics. He went to princeton university and now is a professor at Massachusetts institute of tech (harvard). Eric Lander has discovered Mammalian genomes, genome regulation, microbial and fungal genomes, cell circuits connectivity map, RNAI consortium.