It’s probably Walter Payton. But who is your first-ever favorite football player ... Willie Gault, William Perry, Steve ...

The first pro football game ... there was only one professional player, William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger. Pudge was by then the most famous football player in the country.

The name of the first professional ... of the American Professional Football Association. Two years later, it was renamed the National Football League. William Walter Heffelfinger died on April ...