Jim Otto played his entire professional football career as a member of the Oakland Raiders. Following graduation from Miami, he did not receive much interest from many NFL teams. Otto joined the AFL where he became a nine time All-Star and a ten time All-AFL player. In the last season prior to the NFL-AFL merger, Otto helped lead the Oakland Raiders to the AFL championship.

Otto’s successes carried on into the NFL as he was named to three All-Pro teams and played in three consecutive Pro Bowls. He was named to the AFL All-Time Team, ranked as the 63 greatest NFL player of all time by the NFL Network, and in his first year of eligibility, he was named to the NFL Hall of Fame.

Med Park played five seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the St. Louis Hawks and Cincinnati Royals. He averaged 6.1 points per game and won a league championship with St. Louis in 1958. He also played one season with the Washington Generals.

David Wayne Parks is a former American football wide receiver/end in the NFL. He was the first overall selection in the 1964 NFL Draft out of Texas Tech. Parks was selected to three Pro Bowls and was an All-Pro selection two times.

In 2008, Parks was selected to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame along with twelve other players and two coaches. Among the class of 2008 are such notables as Lou Holtz, Troy Aikman, Jay Novacek and Thurman Thomas.

He is one of only three people to be drafted #1 as a wide receiver, alongside Irving Fryar in 1984 and Keyshawn Johnson in 1996.

Jackson was an offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears in the 1960s and 1970s. While in college at the University of Florida, he helped lead the Gators to their first major bowl game, the 1966 Sugar Bowl. He was later inducted into the Gators Sports Hall of Fame.

Carl C. James was an American collegiate sports executive. He was the commissioner of the Big Eight Conference from 1980 through 1996. In 1996 he was awarded the James J. Corbett Memorial Award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) “to the collegiate administrator who through the years has most typified Corbett’s devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment.”

David Jenkins is a retired American figure skater. He competed in the singles at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal, respectively. He was a law student at Case Western when he won the gold medal in 1960. Jenkins was a strong jumper, performing a triple axel jump in a 1957 exhibition, 21 years before that jump was landed for the first time in competition.

Hughie Jennings was a Major League Baseball player and manager from 1891 to 1925. Jennings was a leader, both as a batter and as a shortstop, with the Baltimore Orioles teams that won National League championships in 1894, 1895, and 1896. During those three seasons, Jennings had 355 runs batted in and hit .335, .386, and .401.

Jennings was a fiery, hard-nosed player who was not afraid to be hit by a pitch to get on base. In 1896, he was hit by pitches 51 times – a major league record that has never been broken. Jennings also holds the career record for being hit by pitches with 287, with Craig Biggio (who retired in 2007) holding the modern-day career record of 285.

Jennings also played on the Brooklyn Superbas teams that won National League pennants in 1899 and 1900. From 1907 to 1920, Jennings was the manager of the Detroit Tigers, where he was known for his colorful antics, hoots, whistles, and his famous shouts of “Ee-Yah” from the third base coaching box. Jennings suffered a nervous breakdown in 1925 that forced him to leave Major League Baseball. He died in 1928 and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.

Johns was a men’s college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) prior to John Wooden from 1939 to 1948, guiding them to a 93-120 record. He became the school’s athletic director following his head coaching tenure. He is a 1985 inductee to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Johnson was a well-known American basketball player during the 1930s. The Oklahoma City native attended the University of Kansas (1929-33), where he was a three-year letter winner under coach Phog Allen. He was named First-Team Big Six Conference twice (1932, 1933) as well as Second-Team Big Six Conference (1931) once. On May 2, 1977, Johnson was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player.

With 26 years of NFL experience, Stephen Jones has established himself as one of the brightest and most versatile executives in professional sports. Recognized as Owner Jerry Jones’ right-hand man, Stephen is the Cowboys Chief Operating Officer/Executive Vice President, as well as Player Personnel Director and President of AT&T Stadium.

Following the Cowboys 12-4 regular season finish and 2014 NFC Eastern Division title, Stephen and Jerry Jones were named the co-recipients of the NFL Executive of the Year Award as presented by Sports Illustrated‘s Monday Morning Quarterback. Over the course of the last 13 years, Dallas draft classes have produced 31 players who have gone on to start for the Cowboys while 14 of those choices became All-Rookie Team selections. Those same drafts also produced 16 Pro Bowl players who collectively combined for 46 all-star game appearances.

Jones has enjoyed a life-long association with the game of football. A four-year letterman as a linebacker and special teams standout at the University of Arkansas, Jones was a starter for the Razorbacks in the Orange Bowl Classic Game that followed the 1986 season. Prior to attending the University of Arkansas, Jones was an all-state quarterback and a three-year starter at Catholic High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.