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56. Edwin Pope, “The South,” Dick Kaplan, ed., 1961 Football Yearbook Kick-Off (New York: Popular Library, 1961), 19.
57. “Ballman Took Risk on 92-Yard Run,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 18, 1963.
58. Walsh, “Steelers Collar Redskins, 34–28.”
59. Steve Guback, “Double Damage in Dual Role,” Washington Evening Star, Nov. 18, 1963.
60. Pat Livingston, “Somebody up There Likes ’Em,” Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 29, 1962.
61. Livingston, “Steelers Are Really Having a Ball, Man!”
62. Walsh, “Steelers Collar Redskins, 34–28.”
63. Al Abrams, “About a Man in a Slump,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 13, 1963.
64. Jimmy Miller, “Real Cliff Hanger,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 18, 1963.
65. Abrams, “Justice in Photo Finish.”
66. Livingston, “Steelers Are Really Having a Ball, Man!”
67. Pittsburgh Press, “Ballman Took Risk.”
68. Livingston, “Steelers Are Really Having a Ball, Man!”; Abrams, “Justice in Photo Finish.”
69. Livingston, “Ballman Took Risk.”
70. Don Schiffer, Pro Football 1963 (New York: Pocket Books, 1963), 107; Livingston, “Steelers Are Really Having a Ball, Man!”
71. Pittsburgh Press, “Ballman Took Risk.”
72. Livingston, “Steelers Are Really Having a Ball, Man!”
73. UPI, “McPeak Wants to Build Winner,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 19, 1963.
74. Miller, “Real Cliff Hanger.”
75. Jack Sell, “The Substitute Speaker,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 19, 1963.
76. Miller, “Real Cliff Hanger.”
77. Ibid.
GAME 11
1. “500,000 to See Kentucky,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 2, 1963.
2. Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 12, 1963.
3. Steve Snider, “Pro-Football Has Become a Craze,” Chicago-Sun Times, Nov. 3, 1963.
4. Arthur Daley, “Too Much Enthusiasm,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 1959.
5. Gordon S. White Jr., “Rioting Fans Halt Giants-Browns Game 20 Minutes,” New York Times, Dec. 7, 1959.
6. “Football—Another Business That’s Really Booming,” U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 18, 1963, 103–4 (the American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920; it was repackaged as the NFL in 1922).
7. Jack Sell, “The Substitute Speaker,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 19, 1963.
8. Ibid.
9. Bruce Morrison, “Bears Go to the Top 26–7!” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 18, 1963.
10. Al Abrams, “Papa Bear on the Prowl,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 20, 1963.
11. AP, “Bears Favored over Steelers,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 20, 1963.
12. Tex Maule, “Down Go the Packers,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 25, 1963, 31.
13. Joe Agrella, Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 22, 1963.
14. Shirley Povich, “Bears Winning with Old Stuff,” Washington Post, Nov. 10, 1963.
15. Bruce Morrison, “Ability to Make Big Play Has Offset Weak Offense,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 15, 1963.
16. “Ball Control Won Says Wade,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 18, 1963.
17. “Bears Defenses Same—Parker,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 21, 1963.
18. Joe Agrella, “Why Steelers Worry Halas,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 21, 1963.
19. “Bitter Brown Anxious to Defeat Bears,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 21, 1963.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Jeff Davis, Papa Bear: The Life and Legacy of George Halas (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), 327.
23. AP, “U.S. Space Program Necessary, Says JFK,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 22, 1963.
24. “A Pride of Lions,” Time, Nov. 29, 1954, 60.
25. Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.
26. Dan Rooney, Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL, as told to Andrew E. Masich and David F. Halaas (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2007), 103–4.
27. Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.
28. Sherley Uhl, “Fearless Kennedy Braved Bone-Crushing Crowds,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 23, 1963.
29. “President’s Death Hits City like Bomb,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 22, 1963.
30. “Dipping Flag Told City Tragic News,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 23, 1963.
31. Art Daley, “Five Texan Packers ‘Go Home,’ Claim ‘That’s Not Dallas,’” Green Bay Press-Gazette, Nov. 23, 1963.
32. AP, “NFL Crowds Somber but Stands Are Filled,” Green Bay Press-Gazette, Nov. 23, 1963.
33. Sam Huff, conversation, Sept. 9, 2008.
34. AP, “NFL Crowds Somber.”
35. AP, “Sonny Wept about JFK,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 23, 1963.
36. “NFL Games to Be Played ‘in Tradition,’ Rozelle Says,” Green Bay Press-Gazette, Nov. 24, 1963.
37. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.
38. Leonard Koppett, “Sports Schedule Drastically Cut as Nation Mourns,” New York Times, Nov. 24, 1963.
39. John Rendel, “Dog Show Begins Despite Criticism,” New York Times, Nov. 24, 1963.
40. Al Abrams, “Whirl around the World of Sports,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 23, 1963.
41. Gordon Cobbledick, “Suspension without Pay Would Curb Brutality of Football’s Hatchet Men,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 24, 1963.
42. “20 Calls a Minute,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 24, 1963.
43. Lou Michaels, conversation, Aug. 29, 2007.
44. Red Mack, conversation, Aug. 8, 2007.
45. Andy Russell, conversation, Oct. 4, 2007.
46. Joseph M. Sheehan, “N.F.L. Games Today Stir Fans’ Anger,” New York Times, Nov. 24, 1963.
47. Ibid.
48. “Attendance about Normal,” New York Daily News, Nov. 25, 1963.
49. Y. A. Tittle, conversation, Sept. 8, 2008.
50. Pat Livingston, “Hard-Nosed Krupa Underrated Tackle in Steeler Defense,” Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 19, 1961.
51. Ron Cook, “Rozelle Blew Call in ’63,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 14, 2001.
52. Murray Olderman, “Two Careers for Charley Johnson,” Sport, March 1964, 86.
53. AP, “NFL Crowds Somber,” Nov. 25, 1963.
54. Davis, Papa Bear, 391.
55. AP, “NFL Crowds Somber.”
56. Ibid.
57. Matt Mosley, “No Heart for This Game,” Dallas Morning News, Jan. 27, 2004.
58. Ibid.
59. Bill Wise, 1963 Official Pro Football Almanac (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 41.
60. Mosley, “No Heart for This Game.”
61. Ibid.
62. Dick Young, “They Came with Mixed Emotions—but They Came,” New York Daily News, Nov. 25, 1963.
63. Ibid.
64. Red Smith, New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 25, 1963.
65. Sandy Grady, “Doors Never Close in Toyland,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Nov. 25, 1963.
66. Frank Atkinson, conversation, Oct. 10, 2007.
67. Fred Remington, “Nets Cancel Scheduled Programs,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 23, 1963.
68. Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.
69. Dick Young, “Does One Grieve More than the Other?,” New York Daily News, Nov. 24, 1963.
70. AP, “334,892 See NFL Despite Protests,” Youngstown Vindicator, Nov. 25, 1963.
71. Ruth Daniel, e-mail interview, Jan. 12, 2008.
72. Mosley, “No Heart for This Game.”
73. AP, “NFL Crowds Somber.”
74. Lee Remmel, “First Half ‘Sharp as I’ve Seen,’ Vince,” Green Bay Press-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1963.
75. Art Daley, Green Bay Press-Gazette, “Packers Battle 49ers—with Heavy Hearts,” Nov. 24, 1963.
76. “Renfro Given New Car, Trips; Fete Canceled,” Youngstown Vindicator, Nov. 25, 1963.
77. Milton Gross, “NFL Teams Play with Mixed Emotions, amid Protests,” Nov. 25, 1963.
78.
Bill Lyon, When the Clock Runs Out: 20 NFL Greats Share Their Stories of Hardship and Triumph (Chicago: Triumph Books, 1999), 223.
79. Grady, “Doors Never Close.”
80. Jim Becker, “Giants’ Loss No Tragedy for Fans,” Green Bay Press-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1963.
81. Sam Huff, conversation, July 9, 2008.
82. Hugh Brown, “Eagles Stumble into NFL Cellar,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Nov. 25, 1963.
83. AP, “NFL Crowds Somber.”
84. Grady, “Doors Never Close.”
85. George Strickler, “Packers Win; Bears Tie, Retain Lead,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 25, 1963.
86. Cooper Rollow, “We’ll Settle for Tie, Says Halas (Still in First Place),” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 25, 1963.
87. Jack Hand, “Cards Tip Giants, Forge Three-way Deadlock in East,” AP, Nov. 25, 1963.
88. Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.
89. Frank Atkinson, conversation, Oct. 10, 2007.
90. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
91. Ibid.
92. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Miss Win … Just Bear-ly,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 25, 1963.
93. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
94. “Steelers High on Curry as West Liberty Camp Starts,” Pittsburgh Courier, July 20, 1963.
95. “Football Roundup: Tan Stars Stand Out in Both Leagues,” Ebony, Nov. 1963, 70; “Steelers High on Curry,” Pittsburgh Courier, July 20, 1963.
96. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
97. Ibid.
98. Jack Sell, “Freezing the Bears,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 22, 1963.
99. Jack Sell, “Rooney U. Hopes to Retain Title Chances!” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 30, 1963.
100. Livingston, “Steelers Miss Win.”
101. Jack Sell, “A Good Joe,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 24, 1963.
102. Robert Smith, The Great Teams of Pro Football (New York: Dell, 1965), 228.
103. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
104. Jim Wexell, Pittsburgh Steelers: Men of Steel (Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, 2006), 35–36.
105. AP, “Parker Threatens to Quit as Pro Football Coach,” New York Times, Dec. 18, 1956.
106. Davis, Papa Bear, 9, 31, 18.
107. Pat Livingston, “4 Steelers Added to Casualty List,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 7, 1959.
108. Wexell, Pittsburgh Steelers, 57.
109. Davis, Papa Bear, 393.
110. Pat Livingston, “‘Silent Whistle’ Cost Steelers TD, Helped Bears Gain,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 25, 1963.
111. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
112. Red Smith, New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 30, 1963.
113. Roy McHugh, “Mike Ditka: Pro Football’s Ty Cobb,” Sport, Dec. 1964, 66.
114. Mike Ditka with Don Pierson, Ditka: An Autobiography (Chicago: Bonus Books, 1987), 90.
115. Rollow, “We’ll Settle for Tie.”
116. Riger, Best Plays of the Year 1963, 69; Strickler, “Packers Win.”
117. Bill Conlin, “Bears ‘Lucky’ to Tie Steelers,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Nov. 25, 1963.
118. Armen Keteyian, Ditka: Monster of the Midway (New York: Pocket Books, 1992), 88.
119. Jack Sell, “Bears Save Skin When Unexpected Pass Hits Steeler,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1963.
120. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
121. Sell, “Bears Save Skin.”
122. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
123. Sell, “Bears Save Skin.”
124. Ibid.
125. Rollow, “We’ll Settle for Tie.”
126. Strickler, “Packers Win.”
127. Rollow, “We’ll Settle for Tie.”
128. Davis, Papa Bear, 393.
129. Rollow, “We’ll Settle for Tie.”
130. Davis, Papa Bear, 392.
131. Grady, “Doors Never Close.”
132. Becker, “Giants’ Loss No Tragedy for Fans.”
133. Arthur Daley, “NFL Fans Give Heavy Hearts Lift,” New York Times, Nov. 25, 1963.
134. Al Abrams, “Monday Morning’s Sports Wash,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dec. 11, 1961; Al Abrams, “Pro Football at Its Toughest,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1963.
135. “Visitors to Family Were Advised to Be Ready for Football Games,” New York Times, Nov. 23, 1963.
136. Leonard Koppet, New York Times, Nov. 25, 1963.
137. David Condon, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 25, 1963.
138. Remmel, “First Half.”
GAME 12
1. Jimmy Brown with Myron Cope, Off My Chest (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 192.
2. Dave Eisenberg, “Buddy Slippery Receiver,” New York Journal-American, Dec. 11, 1963.
3. Kevin Sherrington, “Football Took Its Toll on Ex-Dallas Cowboy Buddy Dial,” Dallas Morning News, March 28, 2008.
4. AP, “Pittsburgh’s Dial Could Be Top NFL Receiver,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 3, 1963.
5. Don Schiffer, Pro Football 1963 (New York: Pocket Books, 1963), 94.
6. Lou Prato, “Sing-Along Football Star,” Sport, July 1963, 64.
7. Ibid., 64.
8. Ibid., 65.
9. David Barron, “Former Rice, Steelers Receiver Dies at 71,” Houston Chronicle, March 1, 2008.
10. Dahleen Glanton, “In Seconds, Killer Stole Untold Years,” Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1999.
11. Barron, “Former Rice, Steelers Receiver.”
12. Prato, “Sing-Along Football Star,” 65.
13. Arthur Daley, “Rice for the Sailors,” New York Times, Jan. 1, 1958.
14. Arthur Daley, “A Matter of Luck,” New York Times, Dec. 7, 1958.
15. Joseph M. Sheehan, “Four Giant Draft Choices Excel in All-Star Football Workouts,” New York Times, Aug. 13, 1959.
16. Milton Gross, “Steelers’ Buddy Dial at Home on Field, on Stage, in Pulpit,” North American Newspaper Alliance (published in Pittsburgh Press), Dec. 13, 1963.
17. Prato, “Sing-Along Football Star,” 65.
18. UPI, “Dial Makes Good without Giants,” Detroit News, Dec. 13, 1963.
19. Prato, “Sing-Along Football Star,” 55.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Peter Golenbock, Landry’s Boys: An Oral History of a Team and an Era (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2005), 113.
24. AP, “Judge Rules Pact with Club Invalid,” New York Times, June 21, 1960.
25. AP, “Oilers Sign Appleton to $104,000 Pact,” New York Times, Feb. 2, 1964.
26. John Clayton, “Appleton’s Haunting Past Slowly Healing,” Pittsburgh Press, May 5, 1986.
27. Ibid.
28. Steve Marantz, Boston Globe, Dec. 12, 1982.
29. Preston Carpenter, conversation, Sept. 8, 2007.
30. UPI, “Dial Makes Good without Giants,” Detroit News, Dec. 13, 1963.
31. Will Doerge, “Steelers Leave Ex-Mate Dial Limp with Bruised Feelings,” Pittsburgh Press, Sept. 28, 1964.
32. Marantz, Boston Globe, Sept. 12, 1982.
33. Sherrington, “Football Took Its Toll.”
34. Ed Asher, “Ex-Rice Star Thrown for Loss over Pension,” Houston Chronicle, May 11, 1999.
35. Dahleen Glanton, “In Seconds, Killer Stole Untold Years.”
36. Alvin Rosensweet, “City Pours Out Its Grief in Services Today,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1963; Harold V. Cohen, “No Column Today,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1963.
37. Jack Sell, “Blow the Whistle (or Don’t),” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 26, 1963.
38. Jack Sell, “Steelers 13-Point Picks over Eagles,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 27, 1963.
39. Jack Sell, “Better than Roger,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 27, 1963.
40. Jimmy Miller, “Coach Parker Warns Title Contenders Eagles Could Be Spoilers Here,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 28, 1963.
41. Pat Livingston, “Eagles Aim at Steeler Title Bid,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 1, 1963.
42.
Ibid.
43. Milton Gross, “Epithet Triggered Violent Fist Fight of Eagles Players,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 12, 1963.
44. “Scotti, Mellekas Hurt in Hotel-Lobby Fight,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 25, 1963.
45. Gross, “Epithet Triggered Violent Fist Fight.”
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. H. D. Quigg (UPI), “A Town in Torment,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 1, 1963.
49. Harry J. Stathos, “The Beatles … Britain’s Latest Craze,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 1, 1963; Pat Livingston, “Parker’s Title Plan Simple, Steelers ‘Just’ Win Three,” Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 29, 1963.
50. Miller, “Coach Parker Warns”; Hugh Brown, “Interference Call Helps Steelers Deadlock Eagles,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Dec. 2, 1963.
51. “‘Nobody but Us Hurts Us,’ Says Steeler Coach,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dec. 2, 1963.
52. Ibid.
53. Jack Sell, “Steelers, Eagles Keep Old ‘Ties,’ 20 to 20,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dec. 2, 1963.
54. Bill Wise, 1963 Official Pro Football Almanac (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963),
55. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.
56. “Stayed in Bounds, Buddy Dial Says,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 2, 1963; “Steelers Admit They Were Bad Against Eagles,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 2, 1963.
57. “Stayed in Bounds,” Pittsburgh Press.
58. “‘Ridiculous Game,’” Philadelphia Inquirer.
59. Brown, “Interference Call Helps.”
60. Pat Livingston, “Rally for Tie Saves Hopes of Rooney U.,” Pittsburgh Press, Dec. 2, 1963.
61. Brown, “Interference Call Helps.”
62. Ibid.
63. “‘Ridiculous Game,’” Philadelphia Inquirer.
64. “Stayed in Bounds,” Pittsburgh Press.
65. Brown, “Interference Call Helps.”
66. “‘Nobody but Us Hurts Us,’” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
67. “‘Ridiculous Game,’” Philadelphia Inquirer.
68. Ibid.
69. “‘Nobody but Us Hurts Us,’” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
GAME 13
1. Jack Sell, “Much-Traveled Rookie Tackle Roamer—from Far East to West (Liberty),” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 9, 1963.
2. Ibid.
3. Andy Russell, conversation, Oct. 4, 2007.
4. Frank Atkinson, conversation, Oct. 10, 2007.
5. Roy McHugh, “Atkinson Finds Rare Richness in Hardness of Pro Football,” Pittsburgh Press, July 28, 1964.