Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The lowly Detroit Lions of 1963 may outlive Green Bay, enshrined as they are in Plimpton's humorous prose. Plimpton tried out for the team with disastrous results, but his memoir of pro football is a long gainer for the fan and the nonfan as well...
...Chiefs came storming out in the first half with their scalping knives flashing. They lined up in weird formations, blitzed wildly on defense, caught Green Bay's own defenders napping with "play action" passes that looked at first glance like handoffs into the line. Green Bay scored two touchdowns, but one of them was a fluke-a twice-deflected pass that Packer Flanker Max McGee somehow managed to catch one-handed, behind his back. The Chiefs outgained the Packers by 181 yds. to 164 yds., out-first-downed them by 11-9. Twice they tackled Green Bay Quarterback Bart...
...bigger and probably stronger than the Packers -whose ground game had not been much to brag about all year, anyhow. That led naturally to Fact Two: Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed 62% of his passes during the regular season, was the No. 1 passer in pro football. So Green Bay was going to the air. Fact Three: the Chiefs' cornerbacks on defense were vulnerable; they were "gambling," trying to cover Green Bay's wide receivers too tightly-mostly because they were forced into single man-on-man coverage by the blitzing tactics of the Kansas City linebackers...
...second half came the Packers, the ultimate professionals, cool, competent, computerized-and more than a little mad. When Lenny Dawson tried to pass, he found himself staring at three onrushing Green Bay defenders-and threw the ball away, straight into the arms of Packer Safety-man Willie Wood, who ran it all the way back to the Kansas City five...
Married. Paul Hornung, 31, pro football's "Golden Boy" since 1956, now contemplating retirement from the champion Green Bay Packers because of a chronic pinched nerve in his neck; and Pat Roeder, 29, aspiring actress; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills...