Interestingly, his own first choreographic experiments--influenced perhaps more by Cunningham, John Cage, and the painter Robert Rauschenberg than anyone else--were very un-Graham-like explorations into minimalism, including one dance, memorably mocked in print by Graham's musical mentor Louis Horst, involving Taylor standing stock still on a bare stage wearing street clothes.

Key players: Brian McBride, Brian Maisonneuve, Jeff Cunningham, John Wilmar Perez.

The founding club members include Troy Aikman, Bubby Brister, Randall Cunningham, John Elway, Boomer Esiason, Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, Dan Marino, Warren Moon, Phil Simms and Steve Young.