Jerome Bettis, perhaps better known as "The Bus," was a six-time Pro Bowl running back, three-time All Pro selection and Super Bowl XL champion during his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Lynch, one of three All-Pro selections on the Buccaneers' defense as well as one of the team's best-known players, accepts these odds with a certain admonition.
It was his first, and only, championship, the culmination of 13 seasons with six Pro Bowl appearances, three All-Pro selections and a spot at No. 6 on the league's list of all-time career rushers.
Halas's gamble paid off as "Jumbo Joe" produced an illustrious playing career with the Bears, earning four NFL All-Star selections, six All-Pro selections, three NFL championships, and an induction into the NFL's All-Decade Team for the 1930s.
A three-time All-Pro selection and nine-time Pro Bowl honoree, Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
He was a star of the Rams team that won the N.F.L. championship in 1951, playing fullback and earning first-team All-Pro selection at linebacker.
The balloting mechanism Labour put in place, allegedly to allow local determination, is complex and still heavily weighted in favour of the pro-selection lobby.
Peterson is a four-time Pro Bowler and a two-time first-team All-Pro selection, but few expected a big year from him.
Last week, a pro-selection campaign was launched by the centre-right Conservative Voice group of MPs, which includes the chair of the party's backbench 1922 committee, Graham Brady, and former leadership challenger David Davis.
He has earned regular playing time in the nickel package and is No. 2 on the depth chart behind Woodson, the 2009 defensive player of the year and a seven-time All-Pro selection.
