”Heap spent 10 seasons with the Ravens, who selected him in the first round out of Arizona State in 2001. “The knowledge of the game and what it looked like and how it was played was so strange and foreign to Americans in so many ways. Pro sports owners are not always a political lot – certainly not traditional NFL families like the Rooneys. ”While Jones likened the Rooneys to NFL royalty, Rooney’s personal touch and irrepressible good natu.