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Somewhere around Savannah, you begin to smell it. You peel yourself out of the car for a Mountain Dew while the gas man pumps it full of unleaded, and it grabs you like a Dick Butkus bear-hug. You smell it, you taste it, and then you feel it: summer is coming--you are going to Florida...
...pours on the speed to run around it. St. Louis Cardinals Wide Receiver Mel Gray (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.) dislocated a shoulder trying to take out a bigger man and has since left the blocking to others. "Trying to be a hero, I ran into Dick Butkus. I missed the first five games of the season, and I learned my lesson." His teammate, Running Back Terry Metcalf, 5 ft. 10 in., 185 Ibs., set an N.F.L. record in 1975 for net yardage by cashing in on his size: "I'm smaller and harder to grab. If they...
Gentle Giant. Son of an electrician in Chicago, Luzinski lit up North Side Hamlin Park from the day he first stepped up to bat. In high school, he also played linebacker and fullback, and led his team to two undefeated seasons. The football recruiters, envisioning another Dick Butkus, swamped him with offers. Says he: "John McKay called to ask me to come to U.S.C. the day I signed with the Phillies." The club's pitch included a bonus of about...
Mike's drinking escapades didn't always turn out as congenially. One night Louis's Pizza became embroiled in an argument whether Dick Butkus would really bite his mother if she were trying to score from the one. Mike was an adamant Butkus fan and assured this disbeliever that Butkus most assuredly would bite dear old Mom or anyone else who tried to score. He used hand gestures to emphasize the point. Unfortunately, he was holding a chair at the time...
...favors, that is the split-second change of direction that makes him unique. "My game is to juke the tough guys," he says. "I put the okeydoke on them, just bounce around and look for daylight. No one is going to get me to put my head in Dick Butkus...