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...bookmakers, who bet no sentiments, chose the Packers by 6½ points, and that was just about right. The Packers' aces-Fullback Jim Taylor, Halfback Paul Hornung, Quarterback Bart Starr-might be weary, but they were part of a team, a disciplined professional team that plays with precision and remembers Coach Vince Lombardi's admonitions: "Wear them down. Punish them. Intimidate them." Only twice in the first half did the vaunted Giant offense penetrate Packer territory. The lone Giant touchdown was scored by the defensive team, on a blocked punt. Tittle complained about the cold: "My hands were...
...Green Bay's Hornung, noted mainly for his running, put the ball on the Giant 7 with a 21-yd. pass. The Packer line opened a truck-sized hole on the next play. And when it counted, Fullback Taylor, spitting blood from cuts inside his mouth, rumbled through for the score. "That was our only mistake," said the Giants later. Had they stopped Taylor, the result would have been the same. Whenever the Packer attack stalled, Guard Jerry Kramer booted a field goal-three in all-and Green Bay won, 16-7. Then the country boys headed back...
...football's pros are shrewder by scheduling only 14 games, how is it that Paul Hornung tops the Green Bay Packers' player payroll with a mere $25,000, while baseball's 162-game season enables the San Francisco Giants to pay Willie Mays $90,000 a year. If the cost of a National Football League franchise is $550,000 today, the growth of the pro grid is decades behind major league baseball, which recorded a $2,800,000 sale of the New York Yankees...
That first year. Lombardi's adrenaline-filled Packers won seven of twelve games -including, admits Hornung. "a fistful that we had no business winning." In 1960. they won the Western Conference championship with an 8-4 record, dropped a 17-13 squeaker to Philadelphia in the X.F.L. championship playoff. Last year the Packers went all the way-and the title game, praise be, was at Green Bay. Nothing like it has ever been seen, before or since. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith, after the Giants were demolished: ''The poisonous polish of the Packers...
...pays 80 of their families' ordinary doctors' bills, more in emergencies. Defensive Halfback Jesse Whittenton owns the King's (X). a supper club in Green Bay: End Gary Knafelc is vice president of a school supply company, and Bart Starr manages a downtown business building. Paul Hornung, who draws $25,000 in salary, makes another $25,000 or so each year modeling sports clothes for Jantzen. puffing Marlboros and falling asleep in front of his Zenith...