Wikipedia hasn’t featured Connie Norwood on its official page.
In 1994, he was named to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, and again in 2019, he was named to the NFL’s 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.
Mike Ditka, a Hall of Fame NFL player and coach, called Payton the finest football player he had ever seen—but even better as a human being.
Payton started his football career in Mississippi and went on to play at Jackson State University, where he was an All-American.
He began his professional career with the Chicago Bears, who selected him with the fourth overall pick in the 1975 NFL Draft. Payton went on to win the AP NFL Most Valuable Player Award in 1977 and Super Bowl XX with the Chicago Bears in 1985.
