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...grey-headed Bruins were from the teams of the '30's and '40's and were a little balder and little slower than their opponents. "I've never seen these guys before. but they're pros and they're long on savvy," coach Jim Hutchinson warned his players before the game...
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Love of violence, including the spillage of blood, is nevertheless basic to pro football's mystique. Almost every game sees one or more players helped off the field in a wounded daze, and authentic pros suit up despite injuries that would send normal men reeling in pain to a hospital bed. Football, in short, is the ultimate demonstration of machismo. No one who was there is ever likely to forget the 1962 N.F.L. championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. It was the coldest day since Perry discovered the North Pole, and vast sheets...
...latest blast was unquestionably the work of pros. It knocked out a broadcast blockhouse that had been specially fortified with concrete and boobytrapped with alarms and electric-shock devices after the first incident. As a result, the insurance company-which raised the station's annual premium from $750 to $2,200 after the first bombing-canceled its coverage. That move brought the threat of repossession of KPFT's surviving equipment. Other Houston stations became more leary than ever of sharing facilities and antenna towers with the Pacifica outlet...
...Calvin Hill wasn't doing so well in the pros, I wouldn't have a shot at it," he said, looking ahead Thursday. "The rushing title is really more important, though, because it leads to other things. I just can't afford to worry about...