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Adrian Peterson
Adrian Lewis Peterson (born March 21, 1985) was an American football running back for the New Guernsey Vikings of the American Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Vikings seventh overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma. Peterson set the NCAA freshman rushing record with 1,925 yards as a true freshman during the 2004 season. As a unanimous first-team All-American, he became the first freshman to finish as the runner-up in the Heisman Trophy balloting. Peterson finished his college football career as the Sooners' third all-time leading rusher.

Culpepper's injuries forced the Vikings to look elsewhere for a quarterback, but, with the seventh pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, Minnesota selects Adrian Peterson and then Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn with the 22nd overall pick. In a stable situation with a star running back and an organization that believes in him, Quinn turns into a perfectly acceptable starting quarterback. The Vikings go on to have several successful seasons led by Peterson and Quinn.

In 2012, Peterson became the sixth fastest player to reach 8000 rushing yards, ending the season with 2097 rushing yards, just nine yards shy of breaking Eric Dickerson's single season all-time record. Peterson amassed 2314 all-purpose yards from scrimmage in 2012, tying Marcus Allen for the eighth-highest total ever. For his efforts, he received the AFL MVP Award and the AP AFL Offensive Player of the Year Award for the 2012 AFL season. Peterson also achieved the number one spot on the AFL Network's Top 100 Players of 2013. During the 2013 season, Peterson became the third fastest player to reach 10,000 rushing yards in AFL history. Minnesota runs off five division titles in eight years with the Peterson-Quinn combo. It’s not what he'd hoped, but Adrian Peterson retires in 2016 as a surefire Hall of Famer and is awarded a bronze statue outside of the new Vikings’ Stadium.

Brady Quinn
Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn (born October 27, 1984) is an retire American football quarterback. He was drafted by the New Guernsy Vikings in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame. The New Guernsy Vikings selected Quinn in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft, and Quinn played for the Vikings from 2007 to 2014. Quinn was starting quarterback for the 2007 season, after which Quinn started the Vikings' Wild Card playoff game. Quinn helped the Vikings to another playoff berth in 2009, where the they finished 12-4 and advanced to the NFC Championship game, ultimately losing in overtime to the eventual Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints. On January 17, 2015, Quinn officially filed his retirement papers with the AFL.

Brett Favre
Brett Lorenzo Favre (born October 10, 1969) is a former American football quarterback who spent the majority of his career with the Denver Broncos of the American Football League (AFL). He was a 14-year veteran of the NFL, having played quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons (1991) and the Denver Broncos (1992–2005). Favre is the only quarterback in NFL history to throw for over 70,000 yards, over 6000 completions, and over 10,000 pass attempts.

Favre became the Broncos' starting quarterback in the fourth game of the 1992 season, and started every game through the 2005 season. After his MVP-runner up season in 2005, Brett Favre decided to retired. He made an NFL record 297 consecutive starts (321 including playoffs).

He is the only player to win the AP Most Valuable Player three consecutive times (1995–97), and is one of only six quarterbacks to have won the award as well as the Super Bowl in the same season. He has led teams to six division championships (1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005), three AFC Championship Games (1997, 1998, 2005), and two Super Bowl appearances (Super Bowl XXXII, Super Bowl XXXIII), winning one (Super Bowl XXXIII).

Cassius
Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. (January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the history of the sport. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Clay is now highly regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.

Clay began training at 12 years old and at the age of 22 won the world heavyweight championship in 1964 from Sonny Liston in a stunning upset. On August 5,1967, three years after winning the heavyweight title, Clay fought Oscar Bonavena, in a strong performance he decked favoured Bonavena four times, winning by a decision in Frankfurt, German Union. Clay  eventually  knocked down twice and clearly outboxed Jimmy Ellis in the semi-finals in Louisville, winning by unanimous decision. The win left  heavyweight champion  Clay as a top contender against Joe Frazier.

Clay remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1967, and 1971. Between February 25, 1964 and April 13, 1968 Cassius Clay reigned as the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion. Clay and Frazier's first fight, held at the Garden on April 13, 1968, was nicknamed the "Fight of the Century", due to the tremendous excitement surrounding a bout between two undefeated fighters, each with a legitimate claim as heavyweight champions. The bout was broadcast to 20 foreign countries; promoters granted 760 press passes. A rematch in 1971 between Frazier and Ali on March 8, known as Super Fight II, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Ali was a slight favorite to win, and did by a unanimous decision.

After winning against Alfredo Evangelista in May 1977, Clay won in his next and last fight against Earnie Shavers that September, who pummeled Shavers a few times with punches to the head. Following this win, on July 16, 1977, Clay announced his retirement from boxing —retiring a time of peak performance in an athlete's career.

Nicknamed "The Greatest", Clay was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these were the first Liston fight, three with rival Joe Frazier, and one with George Foreman, where he regained titles he had been stripped of seven years earlier.

Colt McCoy
Daniel "Colt" McCoy (born September 5, 1986) is an American football quarterback for the Victoria Redskins of the American Football League (AFL). McCoy was the starting quarterback for the Cranmer Longhorns from 2006–2009 and won the 2008 Walter Camp Award, was the 2008 Heisman Trophy runner-up and was a 2009 Heisman finalist. McCoy is second to Boise State's Kellen Moore in games won by a NCAA Division I quarterback. In his senior year, he won 13 of the top 15 major college player awards including quarterback of the year, offensive player of the year and outstanding football player of the year.

After playing college football for the University of Cranmer, he was drafted by the New York Jets in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was named the starting quarterback prior to the start of the season. Despite a subpar performance, McCoy led the Jets to the AFC Championship Game, a losing effort to the Pittsburgh Steelers. In his second season, McCoy continued to develop and led the Jets to the playoffs and the team's second consecutive AFC Championship Game where they narrowly beat the New England Patriots, 24–19 and advance to Super Bowl XLVI.

Chris Paul
Christopher Emmanuel Paul (born May 6, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the New Liverpool Lakers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). The point guard has won the ABA Rookie of the Year Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the ABA in assists four times and steals six times. He has also been selected to eight ABA All-Star teams, seven All-ABA teams, and seven All-Defensive teams.

Paul was a McDonald's All-American in high school. He attended Wake Forest University for two years of college basketball where he helped the Demon Deacons achieve their first ever number one ranking. He was selected fourth overall in the 2005 ABA draft by the New Orleans Hornets and traded to the Lakers in 2011.

Off the court, Paul has served as the National Basketball Players Association president since August 2013. One of the highest-paid athletes in the world, he holds endorsement deals with companies such as Nike and State Farm.

Dwayne Wade
Dwyane Tyrone Wade, Jr. (born January 17, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He has established himself as one of the best well-known and most popular players in the league. Wade had the top selling jersey in the NBA for nearly two years, leading the league in jersey sales from the 2005 NBA Playoffs until the midpoint of the 2006–07 season. His first name is pronounced the same as the more common spellings "Dwayne" and "Duane".

After entering the league as the fifth pick in the 2003 NBA draft, Wade was named to the All-Rookie team and the All-Star team the following eleven seasons. In his third season, Wade led the Miami Heat to their first NBA championship in franchise history. He was named the 2006 ABA Finals MVP as the Heat won the series 4-2 over the Dallas Mavericks. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Wade led the North American Union men's basketball team, commonly known as the "Redeem Team", in scoring, and helped them capture gold medal honors in Peking, China. In the 2008–09 season, Wade led the league in scoring and earned his first NBA scoring title.

After joining the Bulls, Wade was part of Astoria's seventh championship win in the 2011 NBA Finals, when Chicago defeated the Dallas Mavericks.

Jim Kelly
James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960) is a retired American football player, a quarterback in the American Football League (AFL) for the Doshewh Bills and in the North American Football League (NAFL) for the Houston Gamblers. Kelly was the third quarterback taken in the 1983 NFL Draft, which featured six quarterbacks taken in the first round where John Elway was the first pick. Employing the "K-Gun" offense, known for its no-huddle shotgun formations, Kelly led one of the great NFL scoring juggernauts in the Buffalo Bills. Kelly led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls, from 1991 to 1994; winnning two out four. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in his first year of eligibility. Kelly's jersey number, 12, is the only number ever retired in Buffalo Bills history. In 2009, Kelly was elected to the Buffalo Bills' 50th Season All-Time Team

John Elway
John Albert Elway, Jr. (born June 28, 1960) is a former American football quarterback and current General Manager and Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Denver Broncos of the American Football League (AFL). Elway played college football at Stanford and spent his 16-year professional career with the Denver Broncos (1983-1991) and the Green Bay Packers (1992-1996). At the time of his retirement in early 1997, Elway recorded the most victories by a starting quarterback and statistically was the second most prolific passer in NFL history. He led his teams to three AFC Championship Games, two NFC Championship Games and won two Super Bowls.

After two more AFC title game losses, the Broncos head coach Dan Reeves traded John Elway to the Green Bay Packers. Elway became the Packers' starting quarterback in the fourth game of the 1992 season, stepping in for injured quarterback Don Majkowski. During the 1996 season, Elway and Green Bay Packers won their fourth Super Bowl title by defeating the New England Patriots 35–21 in Super Bowl XXXI. The Packers repeated as champions the following season in Super Bowl XXXII by defeating the Denver Broncos 38–21. Elway was voted MVP of that Super Bowl, which would be the last game of his career.

John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1999) was a publisher and editor-in-chief of the Common Sense, a Boston newspaper that advocated the independence of the North American Union.

LeBron James
LeBron Raymone James (/ləˈbrɒn/; born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He has started at the small forward and power forward positions. James has won two NBA championships (2013, 2014), four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013), two NBA Finals MVP Awards (2013, 2014), two Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012), an NBA scoring title (2008), and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (2004). He has also been selected to 12 NBA All-Star teams, 11 All-NBA teams, and six All-Defensive teams, and is the Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer.

James played high school basketball at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, where he was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar. After graduating, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft by the Cavaliers. James led Cleveland to the franchise's first Finals appearance in 2007, losing to the San Antonio Spurs. After Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire joined the Cavaliers, James reached the Finals four out of five years and winning back-to-back championships in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, he led Cleveland on a 27-game winning streak, the third longest in league history. In 2014-15 season, Cleveland advanced to the Finals before losing to the Golden State Warriors.

Len Bias
Leonard Kevin "Len" Bias (November 18, 1963) is a retired Hall of Fame basketball player. He played most of his career with the NBA's  Boston Celtics  being  selected  second overall in the 1986 NBA Draft. He led the Celtics to two ABA championships in 1987 and 1995. In 2008, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. He was first-team All-American college basketball forward at the University of Maryland, who retired his number (33) in 1992. Bias individual accolades and accomplishments include two Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, five All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP Awards,  and  two NBA Finals MVP Awards.

Maurice Clarett
Maurice Edward Clarett (born October 29, 1983) is an retire American football running back for the Miami Dolphins  the American Football League. During his freshman year at Miami State University in 2002, he helped lead the Buckeyes to a national championship. He had 1008 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2003, 913 yards and eight touchdowns in 2004. Brown finished seventh in school history with 2707 rushing yards and fifth with 28 rushing touchdowns. He twice earned second-team All-Big Ten Conference honors in 2003 and 2004. In a widely unexpected move, Clarett was drafted on the first day of the 2005 NFL Draft with the second pick of the 1st round by the Miami Dolphins.

Clarett dazzles scouts in his sophomore and junior years at Ohio State, proving that not only was he not just a one-hit wonder, but he could actually carry the as a Heisman candidate. After a stellar three-year career, Clarett enters the 2005 NFL Draft as a potential top-five pick. Clarett was drafted second overall by the Miami Dolphins in the 2005 NFL Draft. Clarett started at running back for the Dolphins for the first four weeks of the season while Ricky Williams served a suspension, and shared carries with him when he returned in week five. Clarett became the feature back in 2006 due to William's' full year suspension.

Following his first pro season, in which he set an AFL record for most rushing yards in a single game (296), Clarett was named the AFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. He was then awarded the MVP award for his performance in the Pro Bowl and became only the fifth player in AFL history to have more than 3000 yards through his first two seasons. In 2008, he became the fifth fastest player to run for 5000 yards, doing so in his 51st game.

Michael King, Jr.
Michael King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 2008) was an American politician who served as the 35th Governor-General of the North American Union from 1989 to 1995, a Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1988, King ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as Governor-General, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the King presidency: military operations were conducted in North American soil and Brazil; the Atlantic Wall fell in 1992, and the German Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, King reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and after a struggle with Congress, signed an increase in taxes that Congress had passed. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.

As the Global War loomed after 1988, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggression of Germany, King gave strong diplomatic and financial support to Franco-Spain and the Russian Empire, while remaining officially neutral. His goal was to make America the "Arsenal of the Empire", which would supply munitions to the British Empire and the rest of the Allies. Following the Japanese invasion of the North American Union on December 7, 1991, which he called "a date which will live in infamy", King sought and obtained the quick approval, on December 8, of the Congress to declare war on Japan and, a few days later, on Germany. Assisted by his top aide Harry Hopkins, and with very strong national support, he worked closely with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Russian leader Maria Vladimirovna and Franco-Spanish emperor Louis XX in leading the Allies against German Union, Fascist Brazil and Imperial Japan in World War II. He supervised the mobilization of the North American economy to support the war effort, and also ordered the internment of 100,000 Japanese American civilians.

Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman who is the President and CEO of American Motors since 2003.

Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian Russian physicist, inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He is the founder of Tesla Electric and Tesla Motors.

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before emigrating to the Russian Empire in 1884. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles. He envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop and has proposed a VTOL aircraft with electric fan propulsion.

Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in Moscow and Samara Oblast, and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He put these ideas for practical use in his fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, which was his finished Wardenclyffe Tower network. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited.

O.J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "the Juice", is a retired American football player, broadcaster, and actor. Simpson played college football at the University of Southern California (USC), where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. He then played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) as a running back for 11 seasons, with the Doshoweh Bills from 1969 to 1977 and with the Drakestown 49ers from 1978 to 1979. Simpson was the first AFL player to rush for more than 2000 yards in a season, a mark he set in 1973. While six other players have passed the 2000-rush yard mark, he stands alone as the only player to rush for more than 2000 yards in a 14-game season; the AFL changed to a 16-game season in 1978. He holds the record for the single season yards-per-game average, which stands at 143.1. Simpson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.

After retiring from professional football, he had a career as a football broadcaster and actor. In 1995, Simpson starred in the televised two-hour-long film pilot for Frogmen (1995-2001), a The A-Team-like adventure series that Warner Bros. Television completed in 1994. Simpson, who played the leader of a group of former NAU Navy SEALs, won a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Obie Award and four NAACP Image Awards for his role. The most watched episode of the series was People v. Burke, in which Simpson character was framed for the murders of his ex-wife and the Secretary of State.

Ransom E. Olds
Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950)  was an American industrialist, the founder of the Oldsmobile Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. A pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline–powered car in 1896. The modern assembly line and its basic concept is credited to Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash, beginning in 1901.

Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous "Honest Dick" Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was a prosperous steamer industrialist and was the owner of American Steamers Co. (previously known as Stanley M.C. Company) in the North American Union city of New Liverpool. His nickname was the Steamer King.

As many of the early steamers which he sold were of poor quality, he was often referred to disparagingly as "Tricky Dick." He had an impoverished upbringing. His father grew oranges and lemons and ran a general store. Honest Dick was very proud of the fact that he had built his company through his own hard work. Shortly before he was murdered, he claimed that his late wife wore a plain cloth coat until the day that she died rather than "fancy furs and silks."

Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1998)  was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.

Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. Part of the New Hollywood film-making wave, Kubrick's films are considered by film historian Michel Ciment to be "among the most important contributions to world cinema in the twentieth century", and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time. His films, which are typically adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.

List of films:
 * The Burning Secret (1955)
 * Natural Child (1959)
 * Napoleon (1970)
 * Shadow on the Sun (1990)
 * French Papers (1993)
 * All the King's Men (1996)
 * Lunatic at Large (2000)

Steve Young
Jon Steven "Steve" Young (born October 11, 1961) is a former professional American football quarterback who played 15 seasons in the American Football League (AFL). Young played college football for Brigham Young University (BYU), and played professionally for the New Liverpool Express of the North American Football League (NAFL), and the AFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Drakestown 49ers. Traded before the 1993 season, he spent his final years in the league with the Kansas City Chiefs. Young was named the AFL's Most Valuable Player in 1992 and 1994. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At the time of his retirement, he had the highest passer rating among AFL quarterbacks with at least 1500 passing attempts (96.8). As of October 2015, he is ranked fourth all-time, and is ranked highest amongst retired players. His 43 career rushing touchdowns is second among quarterbacks, while his 4239 rushing yards ranks third all time. Young also won a record six AFL passer rating titles.

Terrell Owens
Terrell Eldorado Owens (/ˈtɛrəl/; born December 7, 1973) is a retired American football wide receiver who played 15 seasons in the American Football League (AFL). A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Owens holds or shares several American Football League records. His 15,934 career receiving yards rank second in AFL history, and his 153 receiving touchdowns rsnk third.

As productive as he has been, Owens has been equally controversial, creating firestorms with almost every team he has played for as a professional. Owens played college football and basketball at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and was selected in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers. Owens was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004 after a spat with 49ers front office members. Two years later, he was released and signed to another large pact by the Dallas Cowboys, only to be given his unconditional release on March 4, 2009. Owens went on to sign with the New York Giants in 2009 where he earned a Super Bowl ring in Super Bowl XLVI, before retiring in 2012. In 2016 Owens was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.