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The National Football Foundation is set to announce a pair of honors this week — the 2025 NFF John L. Toner Award will be announced later today and the 2025 NFF Legacy Awards will be announced tomorrow!
🏈 Click here to learn more about the NFF John L. Toner Award and last year’s winner, Michigan’s Warde Manuel.
In the latest episode of the Good in the Game Podcast, host LaVar Arrington sits down with long time friend, VP of NFL Football Development Roman Oben! LaVar and Roman discuss how the game has helped him in his career, the 2002 Super Bowl-winning Tampa Bay Bucs, being the first Cameroon player drafted in the NFL and what he wants his legacy to be!
Join us to celebrate college football legends at one of the sport's grandest traditions!
The highlight of the Awards Dinner will be the induction of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class, where 18 legendary players and four acclaimed coaches take their place amongst the greatest of all time. The inductees proudly represent every region of the country, 28 collegiate institutions, 11 conferences, and seven decades.
Congratulations to Sterling Sharpe on becoming just the 157th person inducted into both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame! A 2014 College Hall of Fame inductee and widely regarded as the greatest South Carolina Gamecock receiver ever, Sharpe was officially enshrined this past weekend in Canton.
Photo: The Athletic
Adam Gibbs started watching college football last year. Soon, he will be punting inside Beaver Stadium in front of more than 100,000 Penn State fans.
📰: Meet Irishman Adam Gibbs, Penn State’s punter commit and college football’s newest ‘superfan’
The Athletic
📰: Deion Sanders says he had bladder cancer but plans to coach the Colorado Buffaloes this season
Associated Press
📰: No chain, no problem: NFL debuts new virtual measurement system during Hall of Fame Game
CBS Sports
Bill Collins, the first-ever black captain in the history of Colorado football, has passed away. He was 76.
Bill Krisher, an All-American at Oklahoma is both 1956 and 1957, has passed away. He was 89.
Name: Laith Wallschleger, 2014 William V. Campbell Trophy nominee
High School: St. Stephen's & St. Agnes (Alexandria, Va.)
College: University of Delaware
Occupation: Actor
How has football impacted your life?
“In Hollywood when you get started, you have to play to your type cast. I look like a football athlete, so a lot of the roles I’ve been cast in, I had to draw on that football background. It’s given me a leg up with my physicality, and gave me an in instead of just being some guy reading against all these other guys.”
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Share your football story with us! We want to know what football means to you, the lessons you learned, and the opportunities it provided.
“Great relationships have hard conversations where you tell the other person the truth.”
— Steve Young, Hall of Fame quarterback
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