A Football Life

Wherever his football life took him, Bill Parcells coached his teams into winners and he's the only coach in NFL history to have won a playoff game with four separate franchises, a track record good enough for the Hall of Fame.

Derrick Thomas was a dominant defensive end and outside linebacker, reaching nine Pro Bowls in 11 years, and holds the NCAA record for sacks in a season at 27. However, he left an even greater legacy off the field following his death in 2000.

This is the football life of Don Shula, who masterminded the NFL's only ever perfect season and remains the coach with the most wins in league history.

He was undersized and forced to live a double life, but that couldn't stop Jerry Smith becoming a Pro Bowl tight end. In addition to leading a football life that took him from juco to the Super Bowl he was a closeted gay man in an intolerant society.

The football life of LaDainian Tomlinson, a Hall of Fame running back who holds numerous NFL records, including the most TDs scored in a single season.

Matt Millen won four Super Bowls with three different franchises in four cities, but his football life wasn't all success - he is widely regarded among the worst NFL general managers ever, as he oversaw the all-time worst 0-16 Detroit Lions in 2008.

Pat Summerall's football life began with the 1952 NFL Draft and still lives on to this day, well after his broadcasting career and subsequent death, with the NFL Pat Summerall Award, which honours character, integrity, and leadership.

Randall Cunningham was the NFL's first true dual-threat quarterback, lighting the league up in the late 1980s and 90s, with his football life a precursor for the running quarterbacks who have gone on to win Super Bowls and MVP awards.

Steve Gleason is maybe the most famous name in the football life of New Orleans, as his blocked punt in the first home game after Hurricane Katrina became a symbol for recovery. His battle against ALS, though, is the biggest of his life.

The story of the many intertwining football lives of the men who revolutionised the passing game in the NFL, including Don Coryell, pioneer of the Air Coryell offense, and Bill Walsh's West Coast Offense.

The Great Wall Of Dallas

They shared a womb, played for the same college team and even wrote books together. The football lives of Ronde and Tiki Barber never drifted far apart and this is the story of twins who excelled in the NFL on opposite sides of the ball.

(Part 1 of 2) Vince Lombardi led a football life like no other. After all, there's a good reason why each year the best team in the AFC plays its NFC counterpart for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

(Part 2 of 2) Vince Lombardi led a football life like no other. After all, there's a good reason why each year the best team in the AFC plays its NFC counterpart for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

A look into the football life of one of the NFL's most controversial and larger than life characters. Warren Sapp is a Super Bowl winner and Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Buccaneers and Raiders, but what made him such a polarizing figure in the league?