Still, no American athletes endure the kind of climate extremes that pro football players do.
Much more likely to predict success in pro football are the skill tests they administer.
He had never played a down of pro football, yet he was enthralled by the game.
Parcells pulled off another victory Saturday election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jones is a man who clearly believes there's more to pro football these days than touchdown passes.
The Cardinals are the oldest pro football franchise, founded as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago in 1898.
"We haven't taken that first step, and that's what I relayed to Darrelle, " Idzik told Pro Football Talk.
Both hockey and baseball require far more professional mentoring and apprenticeship and development than say pro football or basketball.
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The statistics and scouting service Pro Football Focus last season ranked him as the top cornerback in the league.
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Not only are these questions unlikely to tell teams how well someone will play pro football, they are illegal.
Johnson's father, Bill (Tiger) Johnson, was a coach for pro football's Cincinnati Bengals.
But they never ended up sharing the backfield, according to Pro Football Focus, which analyzes each play in every game.
In his thirties, while off duty, he had played running back for a semi-pro football team, the San Mateo Outlaws.
Ex-pro football player, founder and CEO Brad Pyatt has avoided a key pitfall that undermines many a small business owner.
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And former pro football player, Tedy Bruschi, is going to be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with a team of wounded warriors.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame expects to reach a large audience locally in Canton, OH and nationally this year.
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Last year 46 million people attended minor league games, greater than pro football but fewer fans than major league baseball.
It may also help us to temporarily forget the depressing news of the economy, freaky weather or striking pro football league.
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That number looks even odder considering that according to Pro Football Focus, no quarterback threw deep more often than Denver's Tebow.
Protrade recently signed an agreement with ESPN to license its analytics for use on pro football broadcasts, studio shows and ESPN.com, starting this season.
His 34.5% accuracy rate when throwing deep, according to Pro Football Focus, ranks near the bottom of the league among starting quarterbacks.
He played semi-pro football on Pittsburgh fields so devoid of grass they were sprayed with oil to keep the dust from rising.
Kelly was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Users can track pro football players from Notre Dame or pitchers from Venezuela, listen to events and get animated graphics updated pitch-by-pitch.
Navy plays home games in Annapolis, though the annual Army-Navy matchup has been played at pro football stadiums in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
Bush will be a headliner Tuesday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home of pro football's Steelers and once the bastion of the world's steel industry.
He owns the Seattle Seahawks (pro football), the Portland Trailblazers (pro basketball) and is a part-owner in the Seattle Sounders FC (pro soccer).
With graduation two decades behind him, Dodge is trying to make pro football a going concern as captain of the ragtag Duluth Bulldogs.
And now it is back to the first Sunday in over twenty weeks with no pro football game, which is a daunting prospect.
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It was while "messing around on Google" that Mr. Berger came across Pro Football Focus, and one statistic in particular struck him: player participation.
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