Walter Payton finds running room after taking a handoff from quarterback Bob Avellini at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on September 19, 1976. The photo was taken by Fred Stein from the press box as part of a Chicago Daily News feature called Pro Photo Football—which showed key plays in sequence. The picture, called “Ring Around the Runner,” won the Pro Football Hall of Fame photo contest in 1976, and hung—at least according to lore—behind the desk of George Halas.