Wikipedia Tour: 20 All-Time Football Greats (1 of 20)

Wikipedia Tour: 20 All-Time Football Greats

Welcome to our Wikipedia Tour: 20 All-Time Football Greats. Each day we’ll send you a link to a new article about a football star on Wikipedia. The introduction to each day’s article is included in the installment so you can choose to read just the introduction or the full article.

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Walter Payton

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Walter Jerry Payton (July 25, 1954 – November 1, 1999) was an American football player, who played for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Walter Payton was known around the NFL as "Sweetness". He is remembered as one of the most prolific running backs in the history of American football. Payton, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection, once held the League’s record for most career rushing yards, touchdowns, carries, and many other categories. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. NFL player and coach Mike Ditka described Payton as the greatest football player he had ever seen - but even greater as a human being.^[1]

Payton began his football career in Mississippi, and went on to have an outstanding collegiate football career at Jackson State University. He started his professional career with the Bears in 1975, who selected him as the 1975 Draft’s fourth overall pick. Payton proceeded to win two NFL Player of the Year Awards, and won Super Bowl XX with the 1985 Chicago Bears. After struggling with the rare liver disease primary sclerosing cholangitis for several months, Payton died on November 1, 1999.

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Wikipedia Tour: 20 All-Time Football Greats (1 of 20)