A Football Life

The pioneer of the West Coast Offense, Bill Walsh's football life started with a revolutionary coaching philosophy, and ended with a spot in the Hall of Fame, three Super Bowl rings, and the adoration of the entire league forevermore.

Released in 2014, when his football life was far from over and a year before he would lead the NFL in touchdown receptions, this is a portrait of Brandon Marshall; six-time Pro Bowl wide reciever, troublemaker and mental health pioneer.

One was a majestic runner, one was a ferocious hitting machine, yet the football lives of Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus have been entwined ever since they were taken with back-to-back picks in the first round of the 1965 NFL Draft.

The NFL is dominated by Goliaths, but the football life of Doug Flutie proved there's still room for a David or two. <span style="font-size: 12px;">  At 5'9" he was regularly told he was too small to play quarterback, but ignored the naysayers to play 21 seasons of pro football.

A Heisman Trophy winner and first overall draft pick whose football life is remembered by both his college and professional teams for whom his number has been retired, this is the story of Hall of Fame running back Earl Campbell.

<p>Whether it was breaking the single-season rushing record or being the key piece in one of the biggest trades the NFL has ever seen, the football life of Eric Dickerson is one for the history books and the Hall of Fame.</p>

'Mean' Joe Greene was one of the best defensive players the NFL has ever seen and was pivotal in the Pittsburgh Steelers' transformation from punchbags to a dynasty, with his football life punctuated by four Super Bowl victories.

Joe Namath's New York Jets were 19.5 point underdogs with the bookies, but that didn't stop Broadway Joe from guaranteeing a victory and delivering the game of his football life, ensuring his name remained forever transcribed in football lore.

Joe Namath's New York Jets were 19.5 point underdogs with the bookies, but that didn't stop Broadway Joe from guaranteeing a victory and delivering the game of his football life, ensuring his name remained forever transcribed in football lore.

Keenan McCardell was thunder, Jimmy Smith was lightning. When their football lives crossed paths they were the best receiving duo in the NFL. But there were demons being hidden and transitioning to life after football wouldn't be easy.

Lyle Alzado led a tumultuous football life, which ultimately ended in his untimely death following the abuse of anabolic steroids. Before that though, he was a menace in the trenches with a flair for the dramatic, including an exhibition fight with Muhammad Ali.

When Ricky Williams was drafted, he made history - it was the first time a team's draft haul only consisted of one player, as the New Orleans Saints traded away eight picks to get him. After that, Williams didn't stop making headlines.

A 10th-round draft pick in 1964 for the Dallas Cowboys, Roger Staubach joined them five years later having served in Vietnam and spent time in the navy on home shores. He went on to lead an illustrious football life, winning Super Bowl VI and XII. 

The football life of Sean Taylor, a hard-hitting safety and tragic figure who starred for the Washington Redskins in the NFL and before that won a National Championship with the Miami Hurricanes.

A long shot 6th round draft pick who turned out to have one of the best football lives of any Denver Bronco, Terrell Davis won 2 Super Bowls and rushed for 2,000 yards in a season, as well as setting and still holding 46 franchise records.

Players, coaches and even Trojans fan Snoop Dogg look back at the 2006 Rose Bowl, a game for the ages between No.1-ranked USC and No.2 Texas. Both were undefeated and four players who would be top 10 draft picks within three months were on show.

Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris, and Jim Kiick had very different playing styles, but their football lives collided to create the only unbeaten season in NFL history with the 1972 Dolphins. This is a look inside their relationships with one another, and the rest of their historic team.

The first undrafted quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Warren Moon first played in the CFL before moving to the NFL with the Houston Oilers and having a long and fruitful career, retiring at the age of 40.