The NFL players with the highest public profiles were those who had been college stars, at big universities, and the Giants had more of them, particularly Frank Gifford, whose good looks and effortless grace at the University of Southern California inspired Frederick Exley's classic novel, A Fan's Notes.

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"Young people anywhere from 20 to 40 to 50 really should probably take this to heart and try to lower the fat in their diet, " said Grace Petot of Case Western Reserve University.

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Her cinema sis is real sister Grace Dunham, a poet, model and Brown University student.

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Either way, it's quite a fall from grace for Tebow, who was a two-time national champion with the University of Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.

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