DENVER (AP) — From the moment he played his first pickup game on a steamy summer day in the three-stoplight town of Folkston, Georgia, Champ Bailey had a nose for the football.
"I mean, he was greedy with the football," said Boss Bailey, his younger brother by 16 months who played with Champ in high school, college and the pros. "He wanted the ball in his hands. He never said, 'Nah, give it to somebody else."
Those ball-hawking skills served Bailey well when he converted from a star running back and quarterback in high school to a superstar cornerback in college and the pros, where he was downright gluttonous with the football during a 15-year NFL career in Washington and Denver that landed him in the 2019 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.