Pro Football Writers of America
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Purports to be "The official voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public."
Goals of the organization include improving access to practices and locker rooms, developing working relationships with all teams and ensuring that football writers are treated in a professional manner.[1]
The Pro Football Writers Assocation has an All-Pro team, a Most Valuable Player Award, as well as the George Halas Award that is given to the player or coach who has performed with abandon despite injury or personal problems, the Rozelle Award awarded to the club public relations department that consistently strives for excellence in its dealings and relationships with the media, the Good Guy award which is given to the player who best helps the media do its job(Jerome Bettis, 2004, Tiki Barber, 2005 and LaDainian Tomlinson, 2006), the McCann Award which goes to a reporter who has made a long and distinguished contribution to pro football.
The McCann award is presented annually at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Past PFWA Presidents
George Strickler, Chicago Tribune
Tony Atchison, Washington Star
John Steadman, Baltimore News-American
William Guthrie, New Haven Journal
Joe King, New York World-Telegram
Dick Connor, Denver Post
Edwin Pope, Miami Herald
Larry Felser, Buffalo News
Paul Zimmerman, Sports Illustrated
Larry Fox, New York Daily News
Bob Roesler, New Orleans Times Picayune
Cooper Rollow, Chicago Tribune
Vito Stellino, Baltimore Morning Sun
Glenn Sheeley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Don Pierson, Chicago Tribune
Ira Miller, San Francisco Chronicle
Vic Carucci, Buffalo News
Len Pasquarelli, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Schoenfeld, Arizona Republic
John Clayton, Tacoma News-Tribune
Adam Schefter, Denver Post
John McClain, Houston Chronicle
David Elfin, Washington Times