Professional Football Awards
- Sporting News NFL MVP Award (1954–69 and since 1980)
- Sporting News AFC and NFC player of the year awards (1970–79)
- Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (since 1947)
- Sporting News All-Pro Team (since 1980)
- Sporting News All-Conference Team (from 1950s till 1979) (defunct)
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Famous quotes containing the words professional football, professional and/or football:
“Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don’t brag about it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die—at least not in the act—and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“Never be intimidated when you deal with men. Curse, don’t cry.”
—Anonymous, U.S. professional woman. As quoted in Aspirations and Mentoring in an Academic Environment, ch. 4, by Mary Niles Maack and Joanne Passet (1994)
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)