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Even Payton, the teddy bear whose cloying nickname is "Sweetness," counts himself among the brutes. When Payton passed Jim Brown last season to become the leading rusher in league history (14,860 yds. to date), Brown gave him a blessing that the proud Cleveland runner would have withheld from Pittsburgh's Franco Harris. "Payton is a gladiator," he said. "Walter follows the code." Brown was a better runner; so was Sayers. But for running, blocking, throwing passes and catching them, Payton is all-around the most productive football player of the two-platoon era. "For most of his career, teams...
...Pittsburgh Steelers 16 Minnesota Vikings...
Back on the final day of the 1969 season, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost their 13th straight game for Rookie Coach Chuck Noll, who predicted a few of them "would soon be getting on with their life's work." Immediately Ray Mansfield, 44, a center and therefore a realist, started selling life insurance on the side. "We never have that one extreme moment of football glory," he says, "so offensive linemen are less afraid of living on." They receive on-the-job training in anonymity. A gathering of the heftiest Steelers watched the Super Bowl...
...finished the Super Bowl, visited Miller's office recently, and the coach gave him a tour of the different-size cubicles. "Like coaching," Miller says, "it's just a matter of putting in more hours than anyone else. I want to win the stockbrokers' super bowl. Hell, yes." XIII Pittsburgh Steelers 35 Dallas Cowboys...
...down there with the Dallas Cowboys.' Suddenly I was, and it came to me what a great gift it is to have the ability to play. I was given a little slot of time back to understand this. One pass can't take that away from me." XIV Pittsburgh Steelers 31 Los Angeles Rams...