Charlie Ward Jr. (born October 12, 1970) is a retired American professional NBA basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner, Davey O'Brien Award winner and a Major League Baseball draftee.
 Despite his NCAA football success, Ward was one of the very few players who won a Heisman trophy but was not drafted in the NFL draft.
 He won the College Football National Championship with the Florida State University Seminoles.
 Ward played several years with the New York Knicks and started in the NBA Finals.
 He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
 An avid tennis player, Ward also displayed his skills at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Tournament in 1994.
Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football player and coach.
 He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team.
 During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships.
 Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for most wins as head coach in collegiate football history with 323 wins.
 The Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and Bryant–Denny Stadium are all named in his honor at the University of Alabama.
 He was also known for his trademark black and white houndstooth hat, deep voice, casually leaning up against the goal post during pre-game warmups, and holding his rolled-up game plan while on the sidelines.
 Before arriving at Alabama, Bryant was head football coach at the University of Maryland, the University of Kentucky, and Texas A&M University.
The 2012 Texas A&M vs. Alabama football game was a college football game between the Texas A&M Aggies and Alabama Crimson Tide at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 This was the game where Texas A&M freshman quarterback and eventual Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel completed 24 of 31 passes, had 253 passing yards, and two passing touchdowns with 92 rushing yards to help No. 15 Texas A&M upset No. 1 Alabama 29–24, which led him to being the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.
The Heisman curse is a term coined to reference a two-part assertion of a negative future for the winning player of the Heisman Trophy.
 The "curse" supposes that any college football player who wins the Heisman plays on a team that will likely lose its subsequent bowl game.
 The trend of post-award failure has garnered the attention of the mainstream media.
 Talk of a curse in relation to bowl results was particularly prevalent from 2003 to 2008, when six Heisman Trophy winners compiled a cumulative 1–5 bowl game record, and five of those six led number one ranked teams into the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game as favorites (Heisman Trophy winners, including Reggie Bush, who gave back his Heisman Trophy, are 4–8 overall in the BCS National Championship Game and College Football Playoff National Championship, although prior to 2009 they were 1–6).
 Additionally, the Heisman curse asserts that in most cases a Heisman winner will have either a poor career in the National Football League (NFL), or in fact not even see such a football career at all.
 Although many Heisman winners have not enjoyed success at the professional level, including players like Matt Leinart, Andre Ware, Jason White, Rashaan Salaam, Eric Crouch, Ty Detmer, Troy Smith and Gino Torretta, proponents of the "curse" rarely cite highly successful players such as Barry Sanders, Charles Woodson, Eddie George, Tim Brown, Bo Jackson, Marcus Allen, Earl Campbell, and Tony Dorsett among the notables.
The 2003 Cincinnati Bengals season was the team's 36th year in professional football and its 34th with the National Football League.
 The Bengals are now under first year Head Coach Marvin Lewis, who replaced Dick LeBeau who was fired following the 2002 season after the worst season in Bengals history.
 The Bengals had the first pick overall in the 2003 NFL Draft and drafted Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer with the first pick.
 After a slow start, the Bengals got hot winning at midseason, winning four straight games to stand at 7–5, entering a key Week 14 matchup with the Baltimore Ravens with a chance to win the division.
 However in the key showdown for first place the Bengals showed they were not quite ready for primetime as they were beaten 31–13.
 The Bengals would rebound to win their next game against the San Francisco 49ers, but at 8–6 the Bengals could not get that ninth win, losing their last two games to spoil an effort to earn their first winning season in 13 years, finishing at 8–8.
Mark Ingram Jr. (born December 21, 1989) is an American football running back for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).
 He played college football for the University of Alabama, won the Heisman Trophy, and was a member of a national championship team.
 The New Orleans Saints chose him in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft.
The Alabama Crimson Tide football program represents the University of Alabama (variously Alabama, UA, or 'Bama) in the sport of American football.
 The team competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
 The team is currently coached by Nick Saban.
 The Crimson Tide is among the most storied and decorated football programs in NCAA history.
 Since beginning play in 1892, the program claims 16 national championships, including 11 wire-service (AP or Coaches) national titles in the poll-era, and five other titles before the poll-era.
 From 1958 to 1982, the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, who won six national championships with the program.
 Despite numerous national and conference championships, it was not until 2009 that an Alabama player received a Heisman Trophy, when running back Mark Ingram became the university's first winner.
 In 2015, Derrick Henry became the university's second Heisman winner.
Ruth Pickett Thompson is a former All-American synchronized swimmer for the University of Michigan.
 A native of Richmond, Virginia, she was named an All-American in four consecutive years from 1978 to 1981, and also placed among the top three individuals at the Intercollegiate Synchronized Swimming Championships in each of those years.
 Synchronized swimming was one of the six original varsity sports for women.
 Under the coaching of Joyce Lindeman, the varsity team finished second in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women tournament in 1977 and 1978.
 Thompson was the leader of the 1977 and 1978 squads, and was honored with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's 1979 and 1980 Broderick Awards as the nation's top collegiate athlete in her sport.
 She also received the 1981 Marie Hartwig Award winner as the University of Michigan's female athlete of the year.
 In 1998, she received the Gerald R. Ford Award, presented each year to a single former student-athlete who epitomizes excellence in scholarship, sport and society.
 In February 2008, she was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor along with Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard.
 In February 2008, Thompson said the Ford Award and the induction into the Hall of Honor rank at the top of her top achievements.
 "I was quite surprised when I got the phone call, so I was very thrilled and honored to be recognized by the university and athletic department," she said.
 Her two sons, both students at the University of Michigan, attended the Hall of Honor induction ceremonies.
 She noted at the time: "My children and husband were thrilled about this award because Desmond Howard was being inducted with me, so this one is a lot cooler" than other honors.
 Thompson remains involved with synchronized swimming, swimming with U-M's masters group, which takes part in the national competition every year.
 She currently lives in the St. Clair County, Michigan, works as a substitute teacher and volunteers in school, community and church organizations.
Kinnick Stadium, formerly known as Iowa Stadium, is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
 It is the home stadium of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, in the sport of college football.
 First opened in 1929, it currently holds up to 70,585 people, making it the 7th largest stadium in the Big Ten, and one of the 20 largest university owned stadiums in the nation.
 It is named for Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner and the only Heisman winner in university history, who died in service during World War II.
 It was named Iowa Stadium until 1972, when longtime lobbying by "Cedar Rapids Gazette" sportswriter Gus Schrader successfully convinced the UI athletic board to change the name.
 It is currently the only college football stadium named after a Heisman Trophy winner.
The 1988 Los Angeles Raiders season was the club's 29th season in the NFL.
 Mike Shanahan was hired as head coach, and the club finished with a 7–9 record.
 The Raiders drafted Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown, making Brown the third person on the Raiders roster to have won the Heisman Trophy, the others being Marcus Allen and Bo Jackson.
 Most of the team's success throughout the season came through their division, as the Raiders finished 6-2 against the weak AFC West division, with their only 2 losses against the champions of the division, the Seattle Seahawks.
 However, the Raiders were only 1-7 against the rest of the NFL, with their only other win coming against the eventual champions, the 49ers in San Francisco in a game in which only field goals were kicked.

Question: The university who was led to six national championships by Paul "Bear" Bryant, had its first ever Heisman Trophy winner drafted by what NFL team?
Answer: New Orleans Saints