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NOTES Abbreviations AJ Atlanta Journal AP Associated Press BS Baltimore Sun CE Cincinnati Enquirer CT Chicago Tribune DMN Dallas Morning News DP Denver Post GBPG Green Bay Press-Gazette HC Houston Chronicle LAT Los Angeles Times MH Miami Herald NFLPA National Football League Players Association NYDN New York Daily News NYT New York Times PI Philadelphia Inquirer SBJ Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal SDU San Diego Union SFE San Francisco Examiner SI Sports Illustrated UPI United Press International WP Washington Post Introduction 1. Thomas B. Morgan, ‘‘The Wham in Pro Football,’’ Esquire, November 1959. This essay was the first full-blown manifesto of pro football’s new dispensation. 2. Ibid.; ‘‘A Man’s Game,’’ Time, November 30, 1959 (the issue featured Sam Hu√ on the cover); Bobby Layne as told to Murray Olderman, ‘‘This Is No Game for Kids,’’ Saturday Evening Post, November 14, 1959; ‘‘The Violent Fact of Pro Football,’’ SI, October 24, 1960. Cover stories in Life emphasizing heroic violence ran on December 5, 1960; November 17, 1961; October 14, 1966; December 13, 1971; and October 6, 1972. The November 1965 issue of Esquire included Thomas B. Morgan’s ‘‘The American War Game’’ along with articles titled ‘‘The Fifteen Dirtiest Plays’’ and ‘‘The Toughest Customers ’’ (the issue also featured a story revealing how the players’ elaborate equipment fails to protect them). Similar stories in Look appeared around this same time, including ‘‘Operation Meat Grinder,’’ October 19, 1965; ‘‘A Game for Madmen,’’ September 5, 266 NOTES TO PAGES 3 – 15 1967 (the first of a two-part article written by Vince Lombardi with journalist W. C. Heinz); ‘‘War on Sunday,’’ November 26, 1968; ‘‘Mad Dogs and Football Men,’’ October 7, 1969; and ‘‘Mayhem on the Line,’’ December 29, 1970. 3. Neil Steinberg, Jack McCallum, and Richard O’Brien, ‘‘He Could Always Move Merchandise,’’ SI, July 27, 1998; Michael MacCambridge, America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation (New York: Random House, 2004), 144–45, 183–84. 4. Art Donovan’s Fatso: Football When Men Were Really Men (1987) was followed by Sam Hu√’s Tough Stu√ (with Leonard Shapiro, 1988) and Stuart Leuthner’s Iron Men (1988). Donovan became a favorite on late-night talk shows. The Game of Their Lives: Pro Football’s Wonder Years, produced by NFL Films for HBO in 2001, and Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas, Tom Callahan’s 2006 biography, confirm that the mystique of the 1950s NFL remains alive. 5. Stephen Mahoney, ‘‘Pro Football’s Profit Explosion,’’ Fortune, November 1964. 6. Brett Pulley, ‘‘The $1 Billion Team,’’ Forbes, September 20, 2004; Stefan Fatsis, ‘‘Can Socialism Survive?,’’ Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2004; Ari Weinberg and David Dukcevich, ‘‘NFL’s Highest-Paid Coaches,’’ Forbes, January 24, 2003. Average ticket price is from the Fan Cost Index calculated by Team Marketing Report (online). 7. MacCambridge, America’s Game, 212. Chapter One 1. Michael MacCambridge, America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation (New York: Random House, 2004), 135–38, 157–58; Gerald Eskenazi, ‘‘The State of the N.F.L.: It’s Still Winning More Than It Loses,’’ NYT, May 2, 1982. 2. David Harris, The League: The Rise and Decline of the NFL (New York: Bantam, 1987); MacCambridge, America’s Game, 171–73. 3. Tom Barnidge, ‘‘The NFL on TV,’’ in Total Football II: The O≈cial Encyclopedia of the National Football League, ed. Bob Carroll, Michael Gershman, David Neft, John Thorn, and the Elias Sports Bureau (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), 511–13. 4. Tex Maule, ‘‘Players Are Not Just People,’’ SI, April 29, 1963; Kenneth Rudeen, ‘‘Sportsman of the Year,’’ SI, January 6, 1964. 5. Leonard Shecter, The Jocks (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969), 253–54; John Underwood et al., ‘‘The Biggest Game in Town,’’ SI, March 10, 1986; Dan E. Moldea, Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football (New York: William Morrow, 1989), 27–38, 91, 199, 360. 6. MacCambridge, America’s Game, 381. 7. Ibid., 287. 8. Tom C. Brody, ‘‘C. B. DeMille of the Pros,’’ SI, November 20, 1967; William Taa√e, ‘‘Footage That Can Go to Your Head,’’ SI, September 5, 1984; Ben Yagoda, ‘‘Not-SoInstant Replay,’’ New York Times Magazine, December 14, 1986; Glen Macnow, ‘‘NFL Films Is Scoring High,’’ Nation’s Business, September 1988; Robert Strauss, ‘‘Catching Football on Film,’’ NYT, October 29, 2000; David Lidsky, ‘‘Innovators: This Is NFL [18.223.32.230] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 22:47 GMT...

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