Among the 440 cards that make up this year’s Topps N.F.L. card set are 11 Armed Forces Fans of the Game nominated by their home teams.

As the Jets have been transformed from a grand experiment gone wrong to Super Bowl contenders, the secondary remains the team’s primary concern.

Before each Jets game, Abram Elam drops to one knee and prays for three siblings who were murdered within a mile of his childhood home.

Doug Williams, the first African-American quarterback to win the Super Bowl, said the N.F.L. has reached the point that “nobody is going to pass up a guy who can play” based on skin color.

Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress will miss Sunday’s game against Washington after aggravating a pulled hamstring last Sunday.