Roger Staubach

Imagine a football player who was so good, they called him 'Captain Comeback' because he could lead his team to victory even when they were behind! That was Roger Staubach. He played for the Dallas Cowboys for 11 amazing years.

He was a quarterback, which means he was the boss of the offense, throwing the ball to his teammates to score touchdowns. He was so good, he even won a super special award called the Heisman Trophy!

Before Roger became a famous football player, he was a brave officer in the U.S. Navy. He even went to a special school called the U.S. Naval Academy. After his Navy service, where he was a pilot and even served in Vietnam, he joined the Dallas Cowboys. It was like he had two amazing careers! He learned to be a leader in the Navy, and that helped him be a great leader on the football field too.

Roger Staubach led his team, the Dallas Cowboys, to the Super Bowl five times! That's like going to the championship game almost every other year. He won the Super Bowl twice, and he was even named the Most Valuable Player of one of those games.

That means he was the best player on the field! He was so good, he's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is like a museum for the greatest football players ever.

When Roger stopped playing football, he didn't stop being amazing. He became a super successful businessman, starting his own company that helped build big buildings. His company became so big that someone bought it for over $600 million!

That's a lot of money, more than you could count in a lifetime. He even got a special award from the President called the Presidential Medal of Freedom for all his great work.