ATLANTIC CITY - As a tuxedoed Matt Ryan settled smoothly into his seat for the Maxwell Club awards dinner Friday night, his eyes widened while he scanned the Tropicana Casino's showroom.
There to accept the Bert Bell Award as 2016's pro player of the year, the Penn Charter graduate found himself surrounded by quarterbacks - past, present, and future - both in the flesh and on TV screens and banners.
"It's amazing to look around and see some of the quarterbacks who are here, people like Roger Staubach, Ron Jaworski, and Steve Spurrier," he said. "And then when you read the names of all the great ones that the Maxwell Club has given awards to, it's really pretty humbling.