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...therefore a realist, started selling life insurance on the side. "We never have that one extreme moment of football glory," he says, "so offensive linemen are less afraid of living on." They receive on-the-job training in anonymity. A gathering of the heftiest Steelers watched the Super Bowl together that year, and at one point Mansfield gave voice to their unreasonable dream of someday playing in one. As it happened, they would play in four, starting back in Tulane Stadium at Super Bowl IX. "The few of us who spent half our Steeler careers with a hopeless bottom team...
...business has been brutal this year. Sometimes the old Cowboy Cliff Harris, 37, misses "a defined field where flags are thrown." Then he smiles and remembers the singular instant of Super Bowl X, when, for mocking Roy Gerela's missed field goal, he was body-slammed by Linebacker Jack Lambert. "In Dallas, logical thoughts were ingrained," Harris says, "emotional reactions discouraged. The funny thing is, you know how to play the best when you can no longer play at all. Even watching games now, the emotions of football flow through me, but I'm still in my mind a thinking...
...special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, "but no one has ever explained to me how one loss blights a season." Sometimes, the worst thing to be in America is second best in the world. "It doesn't make much sense, does it?" He started four Super Bowls at defensive tackle and, ending with XI, lost every one. "Almost none of the specifics have stayed with me. In retrospect, the result really isn't all that important. The excitement is in the striving, not the attaining, going out and trying to perform, hopefully enjoying ourselves along the way." Page gives...
...seasons as an assistant coach, starting with the newborn Boston Patriots in 1960, Red Miller dreamed of his moment. He never dreamed it would last but a moment. In his careful, defensive way, the 49-year-old "rookie" head coach squired the Broncos to the Super Bowl as Denver's deprived fans painted the country a bright orange. "I walked out onto the field," Miller says, "and thought, 'I used to coach at Astoria High.'" Within three years he was available to Astoria again, but the U.S. Football League's Denver Gold hired him for his marketability. Sales boomed briefly...
...dropped the Super Bowl, smack in his hands, keeled over just like Charlie Brown and collapsed in the end zone forever. "Tough to handle," drawls Jackie Smith, 45, the great St. Louis tight end, coaxed from retirement by Dallas. "But it mellows." He produces fishing films now in rural Arkansas and misses big cities not at all. No tight ends are in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame, but one ought to be. "Sounds crazy, considering what happened," he says. "But I don't guess I ever enjoyed a season so much. All those years in St. Louis, I never...