• the Denver Broncos, who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005, did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons?

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National Football League

• American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield, who completed his college career for Wisconsin in 2009, is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie Holliday and Bobby Engram?
• American football wide receiver Jaymar Johnson became the first player from Jackson State University to be drafted by the NFL since Sylvester Morris in 2000?
• American football player DeWayne Patmon appeared in a few movies after his National Football League career ended?
• College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians?
• Floyd Womack of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash?
• Minnesota's Pudge Wyman scored the first kickoff return for a touchdown, the first blocked punt returned for a touchdown, and the first passing touchdown in the history of the NFL?
• National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co-class president, salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school?
• National Football League offensive tackle Jake Long was hospitalized in intensive care for smoke inhalation while in college?
• Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son, grandson, brother, and nephew of National Football League players?
• quarterbacks Billy Joe Tolliver and David Archer were teammates as backups in the National Football League, but competed against each other as starters in the Canadian Football League?

Chicago Bears

• New York Giants quarterback Harry Newman threw the first touchdown pass in an NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the 1933 NFL Championship Game against the Chicago Bears?
• an investment group led by Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton converted America's oldest limestone roundhouse to an entertainment center?
• in 1978, American football fullback Roland Harper rushed for 992 yards for the Chicago Bears, falling just 8 yards short of 1,000 in the same season teammate Walter Payton rushed for 1,395 yards?
• long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears-Lions-Eagles-Steelers Talent Organization?