Brown's Zak DeOssie just won his second Super Bowl championship as a linebacker for the Giants. (Ben Liebenberg/NFL)

Hall of Famer Chuck Bednarik, from Penn, was a 10-time All Pro who played both ways during a 14-year career with the Eagles. This image after a hard hit on Frank Gifford is one of the most famous in NFL history. (NFL)

Hall of Fame quarterback Sid Luckman, out of Columbia, won four NFL championships and played in five championship games from 1940 to 1946 with the Bears.(NFL)

Steve Jordan, out of Brown, had a solid 13-year NFL career in which he made six consecutive Pro Bowls as a tight end. (AP Photo/Greg Trott)

Yale's Calvin Hill was plagued with injury's when he got to the NFL, but he recovered with back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons in 1972 and 1973. He's the father of NBA star Grant Hill and is President George W. Bush's fraternity brother. (AP Photo/Bill Ingraham)

Matt Birk, out of Harvard, just completed his 14th season with the Ravens and Vikings and won this year's Walter Payton NFL Man Of The Year Award. (Ben Liebenberg/NFL)

Nick Lowery, who went to Dartmouth, was a three-time Pro Bowl kicker during his 18-year NFL career. (NFL)

Gary Fencik, out of Yale, had a 12-year NFL career and was the defensive captain of the 1985 Super Bowl champion Bears. He even had a solo in the "Super Bowl Shuffle" music video. (NFL)

Harvard's Pat McInally had a perfect score on the Wonderlic Test, then played 10 seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals. The Pro Bowl punter played in Super Bowl XVI. (NFL)

Fondly known as the "Head Hog", George Starke, who came out of Columbia, played spent 12 years at right tackle for the Redskins, where he won Super Bowl XVII. (NFL)

The Bills drafted Marcellus Wiley out of Columbia in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft. In 2001, he had a career year with the Chargers, compiling 13.5 sacks to earn his only trip to the Pro Bowl. (AP Photo/Kevin Reece)

Ryan Fitzpatrick, a 2005 seventh-round pick out of Harvard, is the current starting quarterback of the Buffalo Bills. (Associated Press)

Before he was head coach of the Cowboys, Jason Garrett, who played at both Princeton and Columbia, was an NFL quarterback for the Saints, Cowboys, Giants, Buccaneers, and Dolphins. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Quarterback Jay Fiedler, out of Dartmouth, led the Dolphins to three 10-plus win seasons, including two postseason appearances, from 2000 to 2004. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Before turning to coaching, including a stint as the Bills�s head coach, Yale's Dick Jauron played safety from 1973 to 1980 with the Lions and Bengals. (AP Photo/David Drapkin)

Cornell's Kevin Boothe just won his second Super Bowl championship with the Giants and made nine starts at center in 2011. (William Perlman/The Star-Ledger/US Presswire)