By Conor Orr His love for the game helped him endure for 16 years, which is why he retires as one of the greatest players in NFL history. In January 2012, in the days leading up to the NFC championship game, a reporter asked Frank Gore, then in the middle of his seventh season (and third Pro Bowl bid) whether he remembered the running backs who were taken before him in the 2005 NFL draft. Gore said he could, then proceeded to robotically list the names one by one. *“First was Ronnie Brown, second was Cedric Benson, Cadillac Williams, then J\.J\. Arrington, then the boy who went to Carolina fro…