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Sunday afternoon in Miami, Fla., the most overrated team in professional football will meet the most underrated. Vince Lombardi, Tex Maule, Frank Gifford, Gale Gillingham and other Green Bay Packer types will receive a comeuppance: if the Oakland Raiders don't give the AFL its first Super Bowl victory, they will come damn close...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...best example of the Packer mystique that blurs objective analysis just as the Yankee pinstripes used to do is fullback Chuck Mercein. Since he started for Green Bay in its playoffs, no one has mentioned that he is the worst fullback in either the NFL or the AFL. The glory days of Taylor and Hornung have blinded people to the fact that Anderson plus Mercein is not a running attack...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...AFL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Pro Scoreboard | 12/18/1967 | See Source »

...AFL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 11/20/1967 | See Source »

...other half is that The Budget's advocates will use conventional coalition politics to secure their ends. "The Freedom Budget is important not only in itself, but also because of the type of political action it calls for to bring about its proposals. It has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO . . . , by leaders of every major civil rights organization in America, leading religious, liberal, democratic radical, and other organizations, as well as by many academics," says the literature...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Great Freedom Budget: Pot of Gold for Liberals | 11/15/1967 | See Source »

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