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- ...that running back Garrison Hearst is the only player in league history to have twice won the Comeback Player of the Year Award?
- ...that the offensive formation, named for coach Jock Sutherland, pictured, had fallen into nearly-complete disuse on the collegiate and professional levels by 1970?
- ...that only one player since 1998, University of Miami Hurricanes linebacker Dan Morgan in 2000, has claimed the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and the Chuck Bednarik Award in the same year?
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- ...that the Ottawa Rough Riders adopted the Rough Riders name in 1898 in recognition of the Rough Riders regiment commanded by Theodore Roosevelt, pictured, in the Spanish–American War?
- ...that NFLers by career all-purpose yards gained despite having just once earned Pro Bowlhonors?
- ...that two total career passing yardage?
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- ...that the ?
- ...that the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, quarterbacks Vince Young (pictured) and Chris Leak, were subsequently the offensive most valuable players, respectively, of the 2005 and 2006 BCS National Championship Games?
- ...that since the more games than all save five teams but have never won a Super Bowl?
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- ...that former William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record more than 100 quarterback sacks?
- ...that Most Valuable Player Awardunanimously?
- ...that national player for the Scottish Claymores in nine of the side's ten NFL Europe seasons, is the only Scottish-born player to have been inducted into the Claymores Hall of Fame?
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- ...that while at the University of Miami, Devin Hester, pictured, became the first person in the university’s history to play in all three phases of American football?
- ...that in 1968, placekicker Garo Yepremian left his professional football career with the Detroit Lions to enlist in the United States Army?
- ...that during his senior season at the University of Pittsburgh, linebacker Hugh Green won the Walter Camp Award, the Maxwell Award, the Lombardi Award, and finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting to running back George Rogers?
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