you really are a very funny person....not a single one of the football players you named would have been on a list of my or my peers role models. Football players are not Jonas Salk or any NACA/NASA engineer (Al Sieff comes to mind as does Harvey Allen). They play a game. If they are decent people that is the extent of their import. They did nothing to prolong life. They were not surgeons or fire fighters or police officers or members of the military. Perhaps if you had picked someone like roger Staubach I could have understood. They play a game end of story. Tell me what they did with the rest of their lives and then maybe we can talk
It’s evident you’ve never experienced or observed the character-building exercise that just “playing a game” can be.
Too bad for you little man.