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Doug Robinson: Former BYU/NFL great Bart Oates now center of NFL Alumni Association

Lenny Ingelzi, AP

San Francisco 49ers center Bart Oates, left, talks with Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, sitting in a golf cart carrying a crutch, in Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium on Sunday, Jan. 29, 1995. As president of the NFLAA, Oates assists former players and supports various local charities and causes, the latest being an effort to promote prostate checkups for men.

Today’s column is about former BYU/NFL lineman Bart Oates and his work as president of the NFL Alumni Association, but first … a community-service break.

Attention, men: Oates wants you to get that prostate checkup you keep putting off.