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John Ayers John Ayers ( born April 14 , 1953 – October 2 , 1995 in Carrizo Springs , Texas ) was a National Football League offensive lineman from 1977 through 1987 . During that span , he appeared in two Super Bowl s : Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XIX for the San Francisco 49ers . Ayers was a key contributor on the final 89 - yard drive that led to the play that has been immortalized as " The Catch " in the versus the Dallas Cowboys . John Ayers played college football at West Texas A & M University . He was also a member of the 1987 Denver Broncos team that lost Super Bowl XXII , but did not appear in that game . Ayers also served for a brief period as the figurehead President of Bill Watts ' Universal Wrestling Federation . Ayers was diagnosed with liver cancer and died on October 2 , 1995 . His daughter , Jolee , was a scholarship basketball player at Texas Tech University .
1978 West Virginia Mountaineers football team The 1978 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1978 NCAA Division I - A football season . It was the Mountaineers ' 86th overall season and they competed as a Division I - A Independent . The team was led by head coach Frank Cignetti , Sr . , in his 3rd year , and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown , West Virginia . They finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses ( 2 – 9 overall ) .
Shawn Draper Shawn Draper ( born April 5 , 1979 in Huntsville , Alabama ) is a former American football tight end and offensive lineman of the National Football League . He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 2001 NFL Draft . He played college football at Alabama . He played high school football at S . R . Butler High School in Huntsville . Draper was also a member of the Minnesota Vikings , Carolina Panthers , Philadelphia Eagles , New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons .
Jim Christopherson Jim Christopherson ( born February 17 , 1938 ) was an American football player and coach . He played professional football for the Minnesota Vikings in 1962 and was the head coach at Concordia College in Moorhead , Minnesota from 1969 to 2000 . He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in July 2007 . He has a wife ( Sandra ( Sandy ) Christopherson ) and two children : Reid Christopherson & Heather Teigen . Reid , his wife April , and their four children reside in Colorado Springs , CO . Heather has a husband , Troy , and three children living with her at home in Lake Park , Minnesota . Christopherson coached the Cobbers for 32 seasons from 1969 - 2000 . During that time he amassed a 218 - 101 - 7 record . He helped guide the Cobbers to NAIA national championships in 1978 and 1981 and won 11 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( MIAC ) titles during his tenure . When Christopherson retired in 2000 he was third in wins among active NCAA Division III coaches . He was also fifth in winning percentage among active Division III coaches with more than 15 years of experience and 16th in winning percentage among all active Division III coaches . He was also among an elite group of coaches who have coached for over 30 years at the same school . Christopherson , who played for the Minnesota Vikings for two seasons , is the first player or coach from Concordia to receive the college game ' s highest honor . He became only the second player or coach from the MIAC to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame . During his tenure at Concordia , Christopherson guided 16 players to All - American honors . He also produced over 120 athletes that were named to the MIAC All - Conference Team , including Barry Bennett , Sr . and Barry Bennett , Jr . As a player for the Cobbers , Christopherson was the team captain in 1959 and was named the MIAC Most Valuable Player during that season . In addition to coaching football , Jim also taught sailing at Concordia .
Joe Moglia Joe Moglia is the current head football coach of the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League . Moglia is also the current Chairman and former CEO of TD Ameritrade , the largest online discount brokerage firm in the world in terms of the number of retail online equity trades placed each day . Moglia earned his bachelor ' s degree in economics from Fordham University , his master ' s degree in secondary education from the University of Delaware and was a football coach for 16 years , finishing as the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College from 1981 - 1983 . After the 1983 football season ended , Moglia decided to start a second career on Wall Street . Moglia joined a training class at Merrill Lynch with twenty - four MBA graduates from Stanford and Harvard . Moglia spent 17 years at Merrill Lynch , where he was a member of the executive committees for both the institutional business and the private client business . Before leaving to take the role of chief executive officer at Ameritrade Holding Corp ( now TD Ameritrade ) in 2001 , he was responsible for all investment products , the insurance company , the 401 ( k ) business and the middle - market business . In his seven years at TD Ameritrade , Moglia and his executive management team oversaw the company as its client assets grew from $ 24 billion to over $ 300 billion , increased its market capitalization from $ 700 million to $ 12 billion and produced five consecutive years of record earnings performance . He has also helped the company capitalize on merger and acquisition opportunities , including two of the largest in the discount brokerage industry : Datek Online Holdings in September 2002 and TD Waterhouse in January 2006 . In March 2008 , citing the desire to pursue other interests , Moglia announced he would be vacating the CEO position in the coming fall . A search for his successor took place over the spring and summer . In September 2008 , Moglia officially stepped down from his CEO position at TD Ameritrade . Fred Tomczyk , the former COO at TD Bank Financial Group , succeeded him . Not completely leaving the company , Moglia became the new chairman , succeeding J . Joseph Ricketts . It was the first time in the company ' s history where no member of the Ricketts family was a member of the management team , outside of the few that remain on the board of directors . Since stepping down as CEO , Moglia has worked as an unpaid voluntary assistant coach / mentor for the University of Nebraska football team . Moglia has stated that he hopes to coach at the collegiate level . On November 10 , 2010 , Moglia was named as the head coach of the new United Football League franchise , the Virginia Destroyers . On January 12 , 2011 he was then named President and head coach of the Omaha Nighthawks . Moglia will coach in TD Ameritrade Park , a stadium that bears the name of a company he still serves on the board for . He is also the author of two books : " The Perimeter Attack Offense " and " Coach Yourself to Success : Winning the Investment Game " .
2000 Missouri Tigers football team The 2000 Missouri Tigers football team represented the University of Missouri during the 2000 NCAA Division I - A football season . Larry Smith was the coach in 2000 . After the season , he was fired and replaced by new coach Gary Pinkel ( see also Missouri Tigers football under Gary Pinkel ) . They began the season promisingly with a 50 – 20 win over Western Illinois . The next week , however , they lost by 53 points at No . 17 Clemson which set the tone for the rest of the season . Although they were able to win twice in conference , they continually had very little success against ranked opponents .
Jim LeClair James Michael LeClair ( born October 30 , 1950 in St . Paul , Minnesota ) is a former American football linebacker who played twelve seasons in the National Football League with the Cincinnati Bengals . He later played in the USFL with the New Jersey Generals . LeClair began his intercollegiate football career at the University of Minnesota , Crookston while it was a 2 - year university . LeClair later played college football at the University of North Dakota , where he was an All - American . As a senior , he recorded 187 tackles , 3 interceptins , four fumble recoveries fumbles , and 11 forced fumbles . He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999 . After his college career , LeClair was selected in the third round of the NFL draft in 1972 . He spent the next 2 years mainly as a starter on the special teams unit , but became a starter on defense in 1974 and remained so for the rest of his career , recording 10 interceptions and 10 fumble recoveries . He also made the pro bowl in 1976 . In addition to his football career , LeClair was a member of the United States Army Reserve from 1972 to 1977 . In 1975 , he became famous for wrestling a bear at the Cincinnati Convention Center as promotional stunt for the Army reserve during his two weeks of annual training . LeClair fought the Bear to a draw . After his NFL career , LeClair became the head coach of the Mayville State University football team from 1986 - 1988 . He later became the mayor of Mayville and currently runs and insurance agency in the city .
Walk - on ( sports ) The term walk - on is used in sports , particularly American college athletics , to describe an athlete who becomes part of a team without being actively recruited beforehand or awarded an athletic scholarship . This results in the differentiation between " walk - on " players and " scholarship " players . Technically all Ivy League sports players are walk - ons ; while they may have been actively recruited , league rules prohibit member schools from offering athletically - related financial aid . This also applies to football players in the Pioneer Football League , football players in the Patriot League whose college careers began before 2013 , and all NCAA Division III athletes . College football . Walk - ons have a particularly developed history in college football . Often these athletes are relegated to the scout team , and may not even be placed on the official depth chart or traveling team . However there are occasions , sometimes well publicized , where a walk - on will become a noted member of their team in one of several ways . The reasons athletes choose to pursue the path of a walk - on are numerous . Here are several more common reasons :
1986 Cleveland Browns season The 1986 Cleveland Browns season was the team ' s 37th season with the National Football League . The death of Don Rogers , a promising young defensive back who was preparing to enter his third season in the NFL , cast a black cloud over the team as it prepared for the 1986 season . Regular season . Cleveland opened the regular season on the road against the defending Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears . While the Browns played well in scoring 31 points against the feared Chicago defense , they surrendered a season - high 41 points in a losing effort . The team responded well and won four of the next five games , including wins against divisional rivals Houston and Pittsburgh . The win against Pittsburgh snapped a losing streak of sixteen games for the Browns in Three Rivers Stadium . After a week seven loss at home against the Green Bay Packers , the Browns won eight of their last nine regular season games to capture the AFC Central division title and finish the year with a franchise - record 12 wins ( against 4 losses ) . Playoffs . The first round opponent for the Browns in the playoffs was the New York Jets . In a marathon game that lasted over four hours , the Browns won their first playoff game in 18 years , 23 – 20 , on a 27 - yard Mark Moseley field goal in double overtime . Eight days later , the Browns hosted the Denver Broncos to determine the AFC Championship and a trip to Pasadena , California to face the New York Giants in the Super Bowl . In a repeat of the Browns ' playoff game from the previous week , the game was , once again , undecided at the end of regulation with both teams having scored 20 points . Even though the Browns had star defensive players like Lawyer Tillman and Cory Chaney , The Broncos offense would not give up . The Broncos forced overtime on a 98 - yard possession at the end of the fourth quarter that culminated in a game - tying touchdown and later became known simply as " The Drive " . The Browns received the ball to begin the overtime period , but were forced to punt after running only three plays . The Broncos then took possession and ultimately scored the game winning points on a 33 - yard field goal by Rich Karlis to send Denver to the Super Bowl . AFC Championship Game . This game is best remembered for The Drive when the Broncos drove 98 yards to tie the game with 37 seconds left in regulation , and Denver kicker Rich Karlis made the game - winning 33 - yard field goal 5 : 38 into overtime .
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Palpably unfair act In gridiron football , a palpably unfair act is a case of any illegal action that the officials of a sports game deem has clearly and indisputably deprived a team of a score . It is one of the rarest penalties in the sport . The definition of a palpably unfair act is deliberately vague and leaves great latitude to the officials in determining what constitutes such an act . It also gives great latitude to the officials in regard to punishment ; the National Federation of State High School Associations , for instance , allows for any punishment , up to and including forfeiture of the game . However , the same rulebook also indicates a general principle that all acts are legal unless otherwise prohibited by a specific rule . Thus , the palpably unfair act rule is generally only enforced when the penalty for a particular rule violation is insufficient to offset the effect of the act on the play . Examples . The following situations can draw a palpably unfair act call :
Mike Cloud Michael Alexander Cloud ( born July 1 , 1975 ) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League ( NFL ) for seven seasons . He played college football for Boston College , and was recognized as an All - American . A second - round pick in the 1999 NFL Draft , he has played professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs , New England Patriots , and New York Giants of the NFL . Early years . Cloud was born in Charleston , South Carolina , and moved to Rhode Island at age five . He attended Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth , Rhode Island , and played both offense ( running back ) and defense ( linebacker and cornerback ) in high school football . College career . Cloud attended Boston College , where he played for the Boston College Eagles football team from 1995 to 1998 . During his four years as an Eagle , he rushed for a team career record of 3 , 597 yards in forty - five games . He rushed for 886 yards on 137 carries and eight touchdowns in 1997 . As a senior in 1998 , he ran for 1 , 726 yards on 308 carries , scored fourteen touchdowns , and was recognized a consensus first - team All - American . Professional career . Cloud was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft , and was the 54th overall choice . He played four seasons with the Chiefs , appearing in 56 of their 64 games but only starting six . He gained 128 yards in the 1999 season , his career high . Late in the 2002 season , Cloud tested positive for nandrolone use and was suspended for the first four games of the 2003 season . He later sued MuscleTech after claiming that one of their over - the - counter supplements , Nitro - Tech , caused the positive test . Cloud spent 2003 with the Patriots in a reserve role . He scored five rushing TDs in the 2003 season , two apiece against the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts and one against the New York Giants . He was on the roster for the postseason including the Super Bowl XXXVIII win , but was inactive . He went to the Giants for the 2004 season , but was released before the 2005 season began , and signed with New England as a free agent on November 5 due to the injuries to Corey Dillon and Kevin Faulk .
1943 NFL Draft The 1943 National Football League Draft was held on April 8 , 1943 . This draft is the first and oldest NFL Draft not to produce a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame . Hall of famers . None of the players selected in the 1943 NFL draft have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame .
John Baker ( defensive lineman ) John Haywood Baker , Jr . ( June 10 , 1935 – October 31 , 2007 ) , nicknamed " Big John , " was an American defensive lineman in the National Football League who played for four teams from 1958 to 1968 . He later served as sheriff of Wake County , North Carolina from 1978 to 2002 , becoming the first African - American sheriff in North Carolina since the Reconstruction era . Early life and education . Born in Raleigh , North Carolina , Baker was the son of John H . Baker , Sr . , the city ' s first African - American police officer . Baker , Sr . served at one time as sergeant - at - arms for the city council . The younger Baker attended Raleigh ' s Washington and Ligon High Schools and North Carolina Central University . There he was a teammate of Herman Boone . Career . In the fifth round of the 1958 NFL Draft , Baker was selected by the Los Angeles Rams . Over eleven seasons he played for the Rams ( 1958 – 61 ) , Philadelphia Eagles ( 1962 ) , Pittsburgh Steelers ( 1963 – 67 ) and Detroit Lions ( 1968 ) . After Baker retired from the NFL , he worked as an aide for then - U . S . Senator Robert Morgan . He was also appointed to the state Parole Commission . He began speaking to youth in community centers and in prison , trying to help them change their lives for good . In 1976 Baker worked on the state presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter . In 1978 , Baker ran for sheriff of Wake County and won . He was repeatedly re - elected and held the position for 24 years . He instituted a way for incarcerated youth to continue their education , and was instrumental in founding the John H . Baker Charter School ( which was named after him . ) In 2002 Baker was defeated for re - election as sheriff by Donnie Harrison . He was unsuccessful in a 2006 campaign to regain the office .
Jim Schaaf Jim Schaaf is a former American football executive in the National Football League ( NFL ) . He served as general manager for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1976 to 1988 . Alongside his son , Schaaf now owns and operates Jim Schaaf & Associates ( established in 1989 ) , a sports insurance firm . From 1961 to 1966 Schaaf worked with the Kansas City Athletics of Major League Baseball . In 1966 he joined the Kansas City Chiefs front office staff . He was promoted to general manager after Jack Steadman left the role to become the Chiefs ' vice president . Schaaf was fired in 1988 in favor of the Chiefs hiring Carl Peterson .
David DeCastro David DeCastro ( born January 11 , 1990 ) is an American football guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League ( NFL ) . He played college football for Stanford University , and earned All - American honors . The Steelers selected him in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft , and was considered one of the best guards prospects available . Early years . DeCastro was born in Bellevue , Washington . Of South African descent , DeCastro grew up in Bellevue , where he attended Bellevue High School , where he was teammates with Stephen Schilling . He grew up a Seahawks fan , idolizing Steve Hutchinson . Considered a three - star prospect by " Rivals . com " , he was listed as the No . 11 center in the class of 2008 . He chose Stanford over offers from Washington , Washington State , and Oregon State . College career . DeCastro attended Stanford University in Stanford , California , where he was a member of the Stanford Cardinal football team from 2008 to 2011 . He did not play in any games as a freshman in 2008 . As a redshirt freshman in 2009 he started all 13 games at right guard . He was an honorable mention All - Pac - 10 selection and a first team freshman All - American by " College Football News " . As a sophomore in 2010 he started all 13 games and was a first - team All - Pac - 10 selection . Following his junior season in 2011 , he was again a first - team Pac - 12 selection , and was recognized as a unanimous first - team All - American . Afterward he decided to forgo his final season of college eligibility and enter the NFL Draft . Professional career . 2012 NFL Draft . In October 2011 , " Sports Illustrated " ′ s Tony Pauline ranked him as the No . 17 prospect on his midseason draft board . As the season progressed , he solidified that status as a first - round draft pick , being projected anywhere from No . 11 to No . 24 in pre - combine mock drafts . In a decent performance at the NFL Combine , DeCastro impressed scouts with " excellent movement skills . " Still considered the top guard prospect available in the draft , he drew comparisons to Steve Hutchinson . Pittsburgh Steelers . The Pittsburgh Steelers chose DeCastro with the 24th pick in the 2012 NFL Draft . He was the first offensive guard taken in the first round by the Steelers since Kendall Simmons in 2002 . In the third preseason game against the Buffalo Bills , DeCastro injured both his right ACL and MCL . After DeCastro was carted off the field , Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin stated that the injury was a " potentially severe " right knee injury . While engaged with Bills defensive tackle , Marcell Dareus , DeCastro ' s teammate , offensive tackle Marcus Gilbert , fell on his right leg thus causing the injury . On November 26 , DeCastro was activated to the active roster , while Gilbert was placed on injured reserve .
Charlie Babb Charles David Babb ( born February 4 , 1950 in Sikeston , Missouri ) was a safety for the Miami Dolphins ( 1972 – 1979 ) . He is a graduate of Charleston High School in Charleston , Missouri . Both of Charlie ' s parents are deaf , making for an interesting home life for Charlie as a child .
Ray Clemons Raymond Gordon Clemons ( born April 2 , 1921 - died December 28 , 2005 ) is a former guard in the National Football League . Biography . Clemons was born on April 2 , 1921 in Roseville , California . Career . Clemons played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1947 NFL season . He played at the collegiate level at St . Mary ' s College of California .
Dan James Daniel Anthony James ( born August 10 , 1937 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is a former professional American football offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1960 to 1966 . He played college football at Ohio State University . Dan attended Elder High School and the Center was drafted with the eight pick in the first round of the 1959 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers . He eventually played with the Pittsburgh Steelers and retired in the late 1960s . He then returned home to Cincinnati with his wife and children .
George Crumbley George Crumbley ( 1923 – September 15 , 2009 ) was the founder of the Peach Bowl , now the Chick - fil - A Bowl . Crumbley was without national television for the initial Peach Bowl , held in 1968 . After being rebuffed by ABC , NBC , and CBS , he turned to Vic Piano , founder of the Mizlou Television Network , then a fledgling independent TV network . Mizlou televised the game as its first major sporting event and eventually became the leading independent TV network in the 1970s and 1980s . Crumbley headed the Peach Bowl for 18 years .