Word: preseasonitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.F.L. FOOTBALL (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Baltimore Colts v. Dallas Cowboys in a preseason exhibition. Live from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas...
Coaches and players alike are careful not to make too much of preseason scores. Exhibition games are still a time of testing, tuning and pruning; they offer far from reliable samples of relative ability. Still, an improvement in the caliber of A.F.L. play has long been expected. And those A.F.L. victories can only breed confidence. Says San Diego's Alworth: "The N.F.L. teams did such a terrific job of selling the idea that they were so superior to us that we were scared to death of playing them. Now we are convinced that we are just as mean...
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Green Bay Packers v. Dallas Cowboys in a preseason exhibition game. Jack Buck and Pat Summerall provide the commentary...
...PRESEASON N.F.L. (CBS, 3-6 p.m.). Football is back. Detroit Lions v. Philadelphia Eagles in the first of the National Football League's preseason exhibitions. Live, from Aztec Stadium, Mexico City...
...last week the N.F.L. was on strike. After six months of bargaining, the owners of the league's 16 teams had acceded to 21 player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit Lions Guard John Gordy, ordered its 600 members not to report...