The wild hair flowing out the back of his helmet is gone now, replaced by something more suitable for a middle-aged man. He's probably lost a step or two from that slashing running back style that he once possessed.

Yet he still has that great football name, an identity created from Italian heritage, a public-address announcer's dream: Brenno DeFeo. The guy behind the microphone in the press box used to poetically emphasize each "o."