The intro really needs to be trimmed.  I know that the WP:LEDE suggests 3-4 paragraphs max, but I think we should keep the first sentence, use one para for his football career, and another for the dog trail things.  We need to keep the lede simple, there are other places for those details, including later on in the section of the article and the page for the dog ring as well, not the lede.