“He wasn't a football player, but my idol growing up was Roberto Clemente. The man died trying to help out earthquake victims in Nicaragua and that left a huge impression on me.”

American football executive and former linebacker

Ron Rivera is an American football executive, former linebacker and coach, associated with the NFL and the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known as the general manager for his alma mater and for a long coaching career in professional football. Rivera played nine seasons in the NFL with the Chicago Bears and was part of their 1985 championship team, which won Super Bowl XX. He later coached the Carolina Panthers and the Washington Football Team, now the Commanders, and won two NFL Coach of the Year awards with Carolina.