Curated category
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Pete RozelleAlvin Ray Rozelle grew up in Lynwood, California during the Great Depression. He graduated from Compton High School in 1944 alongside Duke Snider.
- Paul TagliabuePaul Tagliabue was born on the 24th of November 1940 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He grew up in The Heights neighborhood as the third son of Charles and May…
- Lamar HuntLamar Hunt Sr. was born on the 2nd of August 1932 in El Dorado, Arkansas. He grew up as the son of H. L. Hunt, a massive oil tycoon who built an empire from…
- John MaddenJohn Earl Madden was born in Austin, Minnesota on the 10th of April 1936. His father moved the family to Daly City, California when John was young.
- George HalasGeorge Halas was born on the 2nd of February 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a home filled with Czech-Bohemian immigrants from Pilsen…
- Jim ThorpeJames Francis Thorpe was born in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, between May 22 and May 28 of 1887. No birth certificate exists to confirm the exact date or…
- Vince LombardiVincent Thomas Lombardi entered the world on the 11th of June 1913, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. His parents Enrico and Matilda had both…