Hey, history lovers, I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

Tomorrow is a huge day in sports.

The Cleveland Brown select, the Chicago Bears select, the San Francisco 49ers select,

the Tennessee Titans select, Cory Davis, wide receiver...

The NFL draft.

For football fans, it's a day to call and sick to work, The NFL draft.

For football fans, it's a day to call and sick to work, hang out at a bar, and find out which new players will solve all their team's problems.

Yeah, right.

We're football fans at Retropod, and the draft got us thinking about presidents. Presidents?

Yes, presidents.

While baseball might be known as the national pastime, it's football.

The pounding of helmets, the chasing down runners, the trash talking at the line of scrimmage

that has been a training ground for at least six presidents

who have thumped heads in Washington. So we dug through the Post archives and consulted the

Pro Football Hall of Fame to bring you a rundown of our country's presidential football jocks.

The best player of them all, a man whose reputation on the field greatly exceeds his reputation in politics,

was Gerald Ford, who took over for Richard Nixon after he resigned.

Ford played center for his high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then made the University of Michigan Wolverines.

Just like his early days as Nixon's vice president, Ford was initially a bench warmer at Michigan,

but he got his chance during his senior year and was team MVP.

The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears wanted to sign for it, but instead he chose law school

at Yale, where he helped coach the football team.

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