400-lb Players Tell Kids to Stay Trim

I can remember when a "big" football player weighed over
200 lbs.  For awhile now 300 lbers are de rigeur (there
are more than 300 of them).  Pictured at left is Aaron
Gibson, 410 lb tackle for the Chicago Bears. Can a 500 lb player be
far behind?

Derrick
Z. Jackson notes the delicious irony of the NFL helping
the nation’s children fight obesity. He points out that "Short of sumo
wrestling, the NFL is the world’s greatest exhibition of hanging guts"

from
the Boston
Globe