Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading the Big Green attack is sophomore guard Henry Tyson, a 6' leaper from Chicago with a 13.4 average. Captain Joe Colgan, a forward at 6'3", has a 12.6 average but he's still recovering from a siege of mononucleosis...
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...
...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...
...Davidson, Keating, Birdwell, and Lassiter may not dominate the game but they will hold their own up front. Middle linebacker Dan Connors is not as ostentations as the Pack's Ray Nitschke but he does the job. And Oakland's defensive backfield is every bit as good as Green Bay's! Willie Brown, Kent McLoughan, and Dave Grayson are quick, man, quick. Lance Alworth and Don Maynard had some success against Oakland, but they are the only ones, and Green Bay has no receiver who resembles them. The only player in the game who can match Maynard's moves...
...game is devoid of the breaks and flukes that make sports interesting. I think the score will be Green Bay 20, Oakland 10. But throw in a key interception by Grambling's Willie Brown and Ike Lassiter's recovery of a Mercein fumble and the final comes out, Oakland Raiders 23, The Pack...