We had a tough practice today because the “Golden Boy” is
back and the Coach is running him ragged. He ran that same off tackle play
about a hundred times. You see the
league just let him back in after he was suspended for a year for gambling.
Hornung was betting on the games. We just hoped he was betting on us to win.
The league suspended him and Alex Karras for a year. Coach
Lombardi called Commissioner Rozelle every day. Three times a day. He kept
busting his chops until he let Hornung back on the team. I mean it wasn’t like
he did anything serious like using the “n” word or doing a war dance or
slapping around his maid. I mean he just bet on football when he could shave
points and affect the outcome of the game. I am sure he never made us lose. He
just shaved it a little.
Just like he used to do to his ball sack. It was quite
unpleasant actually. He wouldn’t do it. He would have one of the rookies do it
as a rite of passage. At least that’s what he said. He was all about the rookie’s
passage.
Coach Lombardi didn’t care about that. He didn’t care about
what laws were broken. If you shaved points or even threw a game here or there.
You see if you were a star player he would do what he had to do to get you on
the field.
Winning isn’t everything. Winning is the only thing.
(Instant Replay- The Unedited Edition, Jerry Kramer & Dick Schaap Random House 1968)
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Speaking of sports, in honor of Derek Jeter's final home game, here's a tribute that I can totally get behind.
LOL!
Ball-busting aside, I'm happy for die-hard fans like Trooper that Jeter's last home game ended so well for them.
I'm getting kind of sad myself, as I think about all the ground balls to the SS's left that won't be hits against the Yankees next year.
"We can't stay as strict as we are as far as the academic structure is concerned because we've got to get the black athletes. We must get the black athletes if we're going to compete"
On the wall around Lambeau Field where the names of Packers' stars are commemorated, the 1963 season is omitted from Hornung's career years, showing 1957-1962 & 1964-67.
They wheeled Fuzzy Thurston out @ halftime of the Jets game.
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