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35
. Livingston, “Steelers Find Title High-Priced.”

36
. Ibid.

37
. Al Abrams, “‘Larrupin' Lous' to Rescue,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 30, 1963.

38
. Livingston, “Steelers Find Title High-Priced.”

39
. “Never Threw a Punch—Michaels,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 30, 1963.

40
. Ibid.

41
. Ibid.

42
. Ibid.

43
. Andy Russell, interview, April 19, 2010.

44
. Livingston, “Steelers Find Title High-Priced.”

45
. Ibid.

46
. Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963
, 18.

47
. Jack Sell, “Cards Bow to Steelers by 23 to 10,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 30, 1963.

48
. Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963
, 22.

49
. “Never Threw a Punch,”
Pittsburgh Press
.

50
. Chuck Heaton,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, Sept. 30, 1963.

GAME 4

1
. Jimmy Miller, “Steelers Get Brown, Deal Bobby Joe Green,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, April 5, 1962.

2
. Jack Sell, “Steelers' New Passer Here for ‘Schooling,'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, June 13, 1962.

3
. Jack Sell, “Parker Irked—Seeks Trades,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 20, 1962.

4
. Joe Tucker,
Steelers' Victory after Forty
(New York: Exposition Press, 1973), 156.

5
. Al Abrams, “A Play-Off Classic,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Jan. 7, 1963.

6
. Pat Livingston, “Parker Tells Bobby Layne to Retire,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Jan. 8, 1963.

7
. Arthur Daley, “The Leader,”
New York Times
, March 28, 1963.

8
. Gary Cartwright, “Layne Was Toughest,”
Dallas Morning News
, Feb. 19, 1967.

9
. Ray Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
(New York: Macmillan, 1974), 135.

10
. “Parker Unruffled by Steeler Loss,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 12, 1963.

11
. “Steeler Boss Cautious but Happy,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 18, 1963.

12
. “Steeler Coach Disgusted by Defeat,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 26, 1963.

13
. Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
, 136.

14
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008; B. Faye, “Meanest Man in Pro Football,”
Collier's
, Nov. 25, 1950, 17.

15
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008.

16
. Cope, “Bobby Layne: I Have No Regrets,”
Sport
, Jan. 1963, 77; Bobby Layne as told to Murray Olderman, “This Is No Game for Kids,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Nov. 14, 1959, 97.

17
.
Jim Wexell,
Pittsburgh Steelers: Men of Steel
(Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, 2006), 47.

18
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008.

19
. Michael MacCambridge,
America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
(New York: Random House, 2004), 79.

20
. Preston Carpenter, conversation, Sept. 8, 2007.

21
. Shelby Strother,
NFL Top Forty: The Greatest Pro Football Games of All Time
(New York: Viking, 1988), 42.

22
. Red Mack, conversation, Aug. 8, 2007.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Brady Keys, conversation, Sept. 4, 2007.

25
. Carlton Stowers, “Life with the Fast Layne,” n.d., newspaper clipping on file with the author.

26
. Alex Karras and Herb Gluck,
Even Big Guys Cry
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977), 124.

27
. Preston Carpenter, conversation, Sept. 8, 2007.

28
. Arthur Daley, “The Leader,”
New York Times
, March 28, 1963.

29
. Paul Hornung,
Football and the Single Man
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday), 152.

30
. Myron Cope,
The Game that Was: An Illustrated Account of the Tumultuous Early Days of Pro Football
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974), 257.

31
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008.

32
. Charley Feeney, “Odds and Ends,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 26, 1971.

33
. “Trolley Intercepts Bobby Layne's Pass,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Dec. 12, 1961.

34
. “2 Killed as Auto Slams into Trolley,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Dec. 16, 1961.

35
. AP, “Boy Steals Trolley in Philadelphia,” Dec. 17, 1962.

36
. Karras and Gluck,
Even Big Guys Cry
, 124–25.

37
. Bob St. John,
Heart of a Lion: The Wild and Woolly Life of Bobby Layne
(Dallas: Taylor, 1991), 108–11.

38
. Karras and Gluck,
Even Big Guys Cry
, 126.

39
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008; Red Mack, conversation, Aug. 8, 2007.

40
. Al Abrams, “‘Larrupin' Lous' to Rescue,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 30, 1963.

41
. Jimmy Miller, “Ex-Steeler Helps Locals with Phone,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 30, 1963.

42
. Andy Russell, conversation, Oct. 4, 2007.

43
. Pat Livingston, “Genius QB Ryan Next for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 1, 1963.

44
. Jack Hand, “Inside Football's Biggest Brains—Frank Ryan and Charley Johnson,”
Pro Sports
, Jan. 1966, 20.

45
. Livingston, “Genius QB Ryan Next for Steelers.”

46
. AP, “Paul Brown ‘Shocked' by Firing,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Jan. 11, 1963.

47
. Pat Livingston, “New 1–2 Punch Browns' Weapon,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 3, 1963.

48
. Livingston, “Genius QB Ryan Next for Steelers.”

49
. Pat Livingston, “Bob Ferguson May Start at FB,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 4, 1963.

50
. Pat Livingston, “Dick Hoak Gets Steeler Starting Job,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 15, 1961.

51
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Facing Last Big Test,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 8, 1963.

52
.
Pat Livingston, “Defense Keeps ‘Heat' on Thomas,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 24, 1963.

53
. Roy McHugh, “Brady Keys Talk of the Town,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1964.

54
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Find ‘Buoyancy' in Title Bid,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 2, 1963.

55
. Al Abrams, “About Great Promotions,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 21, 1962.

56
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Tried Field Goals as Browns Went for TDs,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 7, 1963.

57
. Pat Livingston, “Parker Defends Strategy against Brown,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 8, 1963.

58
. Sell, “Steelers Tried Field Goals.”

59
. Chuck Heaton, “84,684 Watch Browns Win, 35 to 23,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, Oct. 6, 1963.

60
. Andy Russell, interview, April 19, 2010.

61
. Sell, “Steelers Tried Field Goals.”

62
. Edward Chay, “Browns' Defense Cheered,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, Oct. 7, 1963.

63
. Heaton, “84,684 Watch Browns Win, 35 to 23.”

64
. Pat Livingston, “Steeler QB a Standout in Defeat,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 7, 1963.

65
. Jimmy Miller, “Odds Favor Steelers to Lose First,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 2, 1963.

66
. Jimmy Brown with Myron Cope,
Off My Chest
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 212.

67
. Livingston, “Steeler QB a Standout in Defeat.”

68
. Sell, “Steelers Tried Field Goals.”

GAME 5

1
. Stephen Norwood,
Real Football: Conversations on America's Game
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004), 90.

2
. Tex Maule, “Why Oklahoma Is Unbeatable,”
Sports Illustrated
, Nov. 18, 1957, 73.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Gary T. King,
An Autumn Remembered: Bud Wilkinson's Legendary '56 Sooners
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), 137.

5
. Deane McGowen, “Oklahoma Star Back Is Rushing toward More Records,”
New York Times
, Nov. 2, 1957.

6
. Pat Livingston, “Defense Keeps ‘Heat' on Thomas,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 24, 1963.

7
. AP, “Oklahoma Crushes Kansas State and Sets Record with 32nd Straight Triumph,”
New York Times
, Oct. 7, 1956.

8
. UPI, “Oklahoma Overwhelms Texas to Tie Pitt's Record of 33 Victories in Row,”
New York Times
, Oct. 14, 1956.

9
. Joseph M. Sheehan, “Oklahoma Trounces Notre Dame, 40 to 0,”
New York Times
, Oct. 28, 1956.

10
. AP, “Thomas Scores Twice as Oklahoma Eleven Bests Oklahoma State,”
New York Times
, Dec. 1, 1957.

11
. Deane McGowen, “Sooners Are Better with Thomas,”
New York Times
, Nov. 2, 1957.

12
. Pat Livingston, “Defense Keeps ‘Heat' on Thomas,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 24, 1963.

13
.
Ray Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
(New York: Macmillan, 1974), 20.

14
. Gabe Essoe,
Tarzan of the Movies: A Pictorial History of More than Fifty Years of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Legendary Hero
(New York: Cadillac, 1968), 182, 184.

15
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Obtain Thomas in Deal,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 4, 1962.

16
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Sub Team Play for Lipscomb,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 1, 1963.

17
. Clendon Thomas, conversation, Aug. 30, 2008.

18
. Pat Livingston, “Steeler QB a Standout in Defeat,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 7, 1963.

19
. Robert Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963: A Documentary of Pro Football in the National Football League
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964), 17.

20
. J. Kirk Sale, “The Man to Watch Is … the Middle Linebacker,”
New York Times
, Dec. 10, 1967.

21
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Find Title High-Priced,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 30, 1963.

22
. Pat Livingston, “Cardinals ‘Hungry' for Steelers' Victory,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 11, 1963.

23
. “Bob Ferguson Glows in Steelers' Victory,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 30, 1963.

24
. Pat Livingston, “No Fumbles,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 1, 1963.

25
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Review Feud with Cardinals,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 12, 1963.

26
. Pat Livingston, “Parker Playing Hunch with Sapp,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 9, 1963.

27
. Pat Livingston, “Vengeful Cards Battle Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 13, 1963.

28
. Ric Roberts, “Fans Still Optimistic about Snake-Bitten Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Courier
, Oct. 12, 1963.

29
. Pat Livingston, “Excitement Cowboys' Commodity,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 23, 1963.

30
. Livingston, “Vengeful Cards Battle Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 13, 1963.

31
. Jack Sell, “‘Bomber' Obtained from Eagles, Will Be Ready for Cards Sunday,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 8, 1963.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Jack Sell, “Fullback John Henry Johnson Sidelined for Sunday Action,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 10, 1963.

34
. Bill Nunn Jr.,
Pittsburgh Courier
, Nov. 9, 1963.

35
. Pat Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 14, 1963.

36
. Al Abrams, “Suddenly, It Was a Loss,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 14, 1963.

37
. Robert Morrison, “Late, Late Show Puts Steelers to Bed, Ends Big Nightmare,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, Oct. 14, 1963.

38
. “Pottios Picks up Steelers on Defense,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 26, 1963.

39
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”

40
. Morrison, “Late, Late Show Puts Steelers to Bed.”

41
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”

42
. Pat Livingston,
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 14, 1963.

43
. Al Abrams, “Suddenly, It Was a Loss,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 14, 1963.

44
. “Can Steelers' Line Finally Chain Brown?,”
Pittsburgh Courier
, Nov. 9, 1963; Al Abrams, “Card Strategy Misfires,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 14, 1963.