Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than 200 enthusiastic local high school and elementary football players received valuable life lessons from .... About 70 Polynesian players are currently on NFL rosters such as DeForest Buckner, Talanoa Hufanga, Marcus Mariota, Jordan Mailata, Jordan .... One out of every 737 American Samoan men play in the NFL. If that ratio was the same for the entire US population there would be 226,000 current ....
Born in Samoa, Sapolu was one of the first NFL players from the Pacific Islands. After being an 11th-round pick, going 289th overall in the 1983 ....
Today, we are a by-product of the original dream of those early Samoans." No fewer than 28 players on current NFL training camp rosters have roots in American ....