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Fewer than 70 athletes are known to have played in both Major League Baseball (MLB) [a] and the National Football League (NFL). This includes two Heisman Trophy winners (Vic Janowicz and Bo Jackson) [1] and seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Red Badgro, [2] Paddy Driscoll, [3] George Halas, [4] Ernie Nevers, [5] Ace Parker, [6] Jim Thorpe, [7] and Deion Sanders). [8]
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
[1] [45] A five-year, $7.4 million contract was negotiated where Jackson would be permitted to play the entire baseball season with the Royals and would report to the Raiders once the MLB season was finished even if it meant missing NFL games. In addition to this, Davis gave Jackson the highest salary of any non-quarterback player in NFL ...
With an average attendance of over 20,000 per game, MLS has the third highest average attendance of any sports league in the U.S. after the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB), [5] and is the seventh highest attended professional soccer league worldwide. [6]
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His father is Pat Mahomes, a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, [18] and his mother is Randi Martin. [19] Mahomes has a younger brother, Jackson, who is a social media influencer. [20] [21] [22] Mahomes's parents divorced in 2006. [19] His half-brother through his father, Graham Walker, plays football at Brown University. [23]
The "Big Four" leagues each have revenues that can be many times greater than the payrolls of less popular sports leagues in the two nations. In terms of overall league revenue, the NFL, MLB, and NBA rank as the top three most lucrative sports leagues in the world, with the English Premier League and the NHL ranked at fourth and fifth place.
Playing in the NFL is one of the most physically demanding sports. The players are exposed to many hard hits and are often injured. This plus given the fact the NFL is highly competitive, and there is a large group of talented players wanting to take the place of those who are injured or no longer able to perform at a high level, most careers are not long.