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...most improbable bestseller of 1967 was Paper Lion, in which that professional amateur, George Plimpton, gave a Mittyesque account of his preseason tryout with the Detroit Lions' football team. Now comes an instant replay of Plimpton's adventure, presumably aimed at the millions of armchair quarterbacks who spend every Sunday afternoon in the fall glued to the pro games on TV. As a film, unfortunately, Paper Lion has all the interest of a five-yard penalty; it sadly lacks both the charm and sensitivity of the original...
...memorable scene, the plot is actually overlooked, and Paper Lion attains brief beauty as a documentary on pro football. For ten silent minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against...
...could hardly have been prevented. Pete Beathard of the Houston Oilers (record: 3-5-0) was rushed to the hospital last month for an emergency appendectomy, while winless Philadelphia's Norm Snead, trying to make a tackle after an interception, turned sharply and broke his ankle in a preseason game against the Detroit Lions. Baltimore has had to rely on a stubborn defense and second-string Signal Caller Earl Morrall ever since Johnny Unitas, the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player last year, "felt something pop" during a preseason exhibition against Dallas. That something turned...
Largely ignored by preseason prognosticators, Harvard and Penn surprised the experts and now threaten to dethrone Yale from its Ivy tower. All three teams presently share the League lead with 3-0 records...
There is no Bogovich or Gomez around to dazzle the coaches with his preseason talents, but there might be one soon. Right now he is camouflaged in a squad with enough depth and balance to obscure any potential stars...