Word: brocklin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutchmen now," crowed Coach Norm Van Brocklin of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. "How can we help but win?" For a coach whose team won only two of 14 games last fall, Dutch Van Brocklin seemed a trifle overenthusiastic. But he could be pardoned for gloating. In one of those classic, prop-studded contract ceremonies, he happily signed up the Vikings' newest recruit: Wisconsin Quarterback Ron VanderKelen, the most coveted pro prospect in the nation...
...pros play football for fun? For glory? For fulfillment? No, says Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, 35, who has played for twelve years and last season led the Philadelphia Eagles to their first championship since 1949. They play, he says in Norm Van Brocklin's Football Book (Ronald Press; $3.50), for money and marriage...
...starting salary for a National Football League rookie just out of college is about $9,000, and stars get more than $20,000 for five months' work. "Contrast that," says Van Brocklin, "with what the nonathletic C student gets along with his sheepskin. I would say that most of them are lucky if they get a $5,000 job, and they have to work 50 weeks of the year to get it." The pro who plays for pay also has time for lucrative sidelines. Notes Van Brocklin: "How about such modern players as Johnny Unitas, who is building three...
...matrimonial side," says Van Brocklin candidly, "the players don't do badly, either. To name a few: Ron Waller, an ex-Ram, married the granddaughter of the cereal fortune matriarch, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Ron Miller, after a year with the Rams, took Walt Disney's daughter as his bride and moved into Disneyland. Bud McFadin is the husband of a young lady whose father owns half of West Texas. Bud now runs a dude ranch near Houston. Leon Clarke, the Rams' tall end, wed the heiress to the Beechnut chewing gum, baby food and allied products millions...
...rugged Green Bay Packers knew they would have to foil the two grand old men of the gallant Philadelphia Eagles: Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, 34, and Center-Linebacker Chuck Bednarik, 35, both talking about retiring after that day's championship play-off of the National Football League. But in the second period Van Brocklin coolly passed to Halfback Tommy McDonald for a 35-yd. touchdown. Then a crunching tackle by Bednarik put Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, the league's leading scorer, out of the game with a pinched nerve in his shoulder. When the Packers were driving...