Big John Studd. A basketball star in his youth, Big John Studd entered professional wrestling under the tutelage of fellow giant Killer Kowalski in the mid-70s. A legitimate 7-foot-1, Studd had the mass of an NFL linebacker with hands like baked hams.
Peyton Manning to retire a champion. Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos addresses the media during Super Bowl XLVIII media availability on January 30, 2014, in Jersey City, New Jersey. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Peyton Manning surveyed the landscape of his brilliant career and called one last audible. He's retiring a champion.
Hall of Fame and former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, the executive who persuaded Manning to join the Broncos in March 2012, was 38 years, seven months and three days old when Denver defeated the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl XXXIII. Elway retired that spring.