In the early 1970s, the Miami Dolphins were one of the best teams ever and loaded with talent, but one of their stars, Dick Anderson, seems to have been forgotten.  Let's try to rectify that.

Anderson was drafted in 1968, and as a rookie, he led the league in Interception Return Yards, a feat he repeated in 1970.  The Safety couldn't sneak up on anyone anymore, but he raised his game further and went to the Pro Bowl three years in a row (1972 to 1974).  The first of those seasons was Miami's famed undefeated Super Bowl season, and the following season the Fins repeated the Super Bowl win, with Anderson leading the NFL in Interceptions and winning AP Defensive Player of the Year.  He would spend his entire career with Miami and had 34 picks.  Not too bad for a football player who looked like an accountant!

This one might be a little tough to justify, but it wasn't uncommon for players before World War II.

Byron “Whizzer” White was a hot commodity after being a consensus All-American at Colorado, and he was drafted 4^th Overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1938.  As a rookie, he would lead the NFL in Rushing, but the National Football League was not the only organization that sought his talents.  He played there for only one year, deferring his pro career to attend Oxford, but the Rhodes Scholar stayed only one year as he returned to the United States after the outbreak of World War II.

White returned to football and played for the Detroit Lions for two years, where in 1940 he again won the Rushing Title.  Like many others, he enlisted in the military when the U.S. joined World War II; he served in the Navy as an officer in Military Intelligence.  Although he was more than good enough to play football again after the war, he went into law and politics and became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.  A great humanitarian, the Whizzer White Award is given annually to the NFL player for his charity work (though this would be changed to the Alan Page Award)

Despite playing only two seasons in the 1940s, he was chosen for the All-Decade Team, but a spot in Canton is hard to earn when you played only three years in total.

Boyd Dowler came from the mountains to Wisconsin's cheese country, and as a member of the Green Bay Packers, he won five NFL Championships and the first two Super Bowls.  Dowler wasted no time becoming a high-end weapon for Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi, and United Press named him the Rookie of the Year in 1959.  He would have at least 500 Receiving Yards for nine seasons and was a Pro Bowl Selection twice (1965 & 1967).  Dowler played all but his last season with the Packers and was a fixture in their five 1960’s championship teams and their first two Super Bowl wins, scoring a TD in Super Bowl II.

Boyd Dowler would be named to the NFL 1960's All-Decade Team and would have 40 TDs with 7,270 Yards.