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...Pros. In Stuttgart, Germany, seven counterfeiters were arrested after it was noticed that the 5-mark pieces they were making were of far better quality than legitimate ones...
...only do the pros play better and more complex football than even the best college teams, they also play rougher. "We play rough and we teach rough," says Lion Coach Buddy Parker. "And when I say rough I don't mean poking a guy in the eye. I mean gang tackling-right close to piling...
...mugging goes on, it obviously goes best at the bottom of a pileup. Ball carriers who join the pros fresh from the unskilled slugfests of collegiate football learn fast how to fall with knees doubled and cleats in the air-a practice nicely calculated to scare off any unnecessary tackier. A runner who doesn't throw his arm in front of his face the moment he is brought down is either foolhardy or unconscious...
...ball carrier and there is a split second between then and the time the whistle blows, I hit him again, hard." As far as Paul is concerned, the difference between a good pro player and a good college player can be summed up easily: "In the pros, you know how to get that extra leverage to be able to hit hard. You know how to hit and then be able to keep your feet to hit again. On top of everything else, you're 40 to 60 pounds heavier and 500% meaner...
...last year at Texas, Bobby made nearly every All-America team in the country; the pros were waiting for him with open pocketbooks. In those days the newly formed All-America Conference was fighting for its life (it eventually folded in 1949), and competitive bidding gave players a better break than they have known before or since. Bobby finally signed with the Chicago Bears for a bonus of $10,000, a salary of $18,000 and promised raises...