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...yeah. Pete Rozelle asked me to tell you that the Pro Bowl--the showcase of professional football's greatest talents, the game that separates the AFC from the NFC, the battle that is fought so fiercely that few have lived to tell about it--will be on the tube this Sunday, January...
...tell Pete Rozelle, but professional sports do go on after the Super Bowl. And last night, the Philadelphia Flyers did a great Minnesota Viking imitation while bowing to the New York Islanders...
...children's basic perception of sport, suggests that a game is one more TV drama, trying to be real, among the artificial people of commercials, who are also trying to be real. Illusion and reality, a fascination of Eliot and Camus, seemed a bit heavy to lay on Pete Rozelle the other day under the rosewood walls of his Park Avenue office. So I asked this most successful of sports commissioners if the National Football League was show business...
...dirty play. It began in the season's opening game, when Safetyman George Atkinson decked Pittsburgh Receiver Lynn Swann, leaving Swann with a concussion. Steeler Coach Chuck Noll charged Atkinson with foul play, speaking darkly of a "criminal element in the N.F.L." Hoping to cool things off, Commissioner Pete Rozelle fined Atkinson $1,500 and Noll $1,000. For his part, Atkinson slapped Rozelle and Noll with lawsuits charging defamation of character...
...Tigers picked apart the Crimson defense with surgical precision, winning by 77-45. "We got our doors blown out," summed up Captain Jeff Hill, as Pete Carril's quintet seems more invincible after each outing...