Legendary coach Vince Lombardi led the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships in the 1960s.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who led the league from 1960 to 1989, oversaw the NFL's rise into a sports-business juggernaut.

A Black man, Fritz Pollard, was the star player for the 1920 Akron Pros, leading the team to win the NFL's very first championship.

Kenny Washington (#13) and Woody Strode (#34) starred together in the UCLA backfield before becoming the first Black players to play in the modern NFL when they joined the LA Rams in 1946.

Jackie Robinson (#28) became an American hero as a baseball player, but those who saw him play said he was even more talented on the gridiron. In 1939, while playing for UCLA, Robinson led the nation in yards per carry.

In 1988, the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles played each other in a game remembered as the "Fog Bowl." Fans watching the Monday Night Football game on television could see virtually nothing through the impenetrable gray fog that had descended upon Chicago's Soldier Field.

Quarterback Joe Namath led the New York Jets to a shocking victory in 1969's Super Bowl III.

The Pittsburgh Steelers rode their fearsome "Steel Curtain" defense to four Super Bowl titles in the late 1970s.

San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana led the best offensive team of the 1980s to a perfect 4–0 record in Super Bowls.

In 1997, quarterback Brett Favre led the Green Bay Packers to their first Super Bowl since legendary coach Vince Lombardi retired nearly three decades earlier.

The New England Patriots, led by fiery coach Bill Belichick, became the first NFL dynasty of the 21st century by winning three out of four Super Bowls starting in 2002.