The '63 Steelers (52 page)

45
. Don Smith,
Coffin Corner
16, no. 6 (1994).

46
.
Norwood,
Real Football
, 106.

47
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 66.

48
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”

49
. Pat Livingston,
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 24, 1963.

50
. Pat Livingston, “‘Prevent Defense' Defies Football Theory,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1963.

51
. Pat Livingston, “The Volatile Mr. Ramsey,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 14, 1963.

52
. Pat Livingston,
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 10, 1963.

53
. Al Abrams,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.

54
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”

55
. Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963
, 38.

56
. “Johnson's Stock up as Steelers Stagger,”
Pittsburgh Courier
, Oct. 19, 1963.

57
. Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
, 24.

58
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”

59
. Ibid.

60
. AP, “Browns Batter Giants by 32–24,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
,Oct. 14, 1963.

61
. Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963
, 29.

62
. Jimmy Cannon,
Nobody Asked Me, But: The World of Jimmy Cannon
, ed. Jack Cannon and T. Cannon (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 226.

63
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Find ‘Buoyancy' in Title Bid,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 2, 1963.

GAME 6

1
. “Dry Spell—and Autos—Make It Tough on Sam,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.

2
. Al Abrams, “Buddy Hasn't Given Up,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.

3
. Howard Whitman, “Make Friends with Your Nerves,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 9, 1963; Howard Whitman, “You Must Release Inner Tension,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 10, 1963.

4
. Al Abrams, “Buddy Hasn't Given Up,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.

5
. Pat Livingston, “Redskins Tilt Crossroads for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 17, 1963.

6
. Pat Livingston, “Snead's Passes Pose Threat for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 19, 1963; Pat Livingston, “‘Prevent Defense' Defies Football Theory,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1963.

7
. UPI, “McPeak Hits Criticism of QB Snead,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1963.

8
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Joseph M. Sheehan, “Pitt Bows, 29 to 13,”
New York Times
, Oct. 20, 1957.

12
. Michael Strauss, “Gerlick's Field Goal Puts Orangemen on Top, 24–21,”
New York Times
, Nov. 3, 1957 (Strauss reports that the ball was on the Pitt 35-yard line).

13
. Joseph M. Sheehan, “Panthers Rally,”
New York Times
, Oct. 26, 1958.

14
.
Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.

15
. Jack Sell, “Castoffs Spark Steelers to Upset, 17–13,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 6, 1961; Bridget Wentworth,
Newark Star-Ledger
, Jan. 25, 2009.

16
. Pat Livingston, “Wrong Guesses Disturb Haley,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 21, 1962.

17
. Dick Haley, conversation, July 23, 2010.

18
. Art Rooney Jr., interview, Oct. 4, 2008.

19
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.

20
. Bob Thomas, “Vinton Is Big Time—Earns $25,000 a Year,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 16, 1963.

21
. Vince Johnson, “Racket Raiders Nab 31 Here,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.

22
. Al Abrams, “A Teammate of Jim Brown,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 16, 1963.

23
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Turn Cards, 19–7, Regain Second,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Dec. 3, 1962.

24
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Deal Ferguson for Draft Choice,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 16, 1963.

25
. Pat Livingston, “Sapp to Take over as Steeler Fullback,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 16, 1963.

26
. Ibid.; “Big Daddy of the Big Ten,”
Stanley Woodward's Football
, Nov. 1960; Sam Huff and Leonard Shapiro,
Tough Stuff: The Man in the Middle
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988), 168.

27
. Jimmy Brown with Myron Cope,
Off My Chest
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 195.

28
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Was Given OK to Pass Up Drills to Help Heal Ankle,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 21, 1963.

29
. George Barrett,
New York Times
, “The Mirror Is Closed by Hearst Corp.,” Oct. 16, 1963.

30
. “Time of Change for the Nation's Newspapers,”
U.S. News & World Report
, Nov. 4, 1963, 44–45.

31
. “Doghouse Blues! Injured JHJ Slow Healer, Says Parker,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.

32
. Al Abrams, “Pros' Lure Intriguing,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.

33
. Jimmy Miller, “1,000 Nuns to See Game with Redskins on Sunday,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.

34
. Ed Kiely, “A Man Nobody Knows,” Steelers game program, Oct. 29, 1961.

35
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Dial New TD Strategy,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 21, 1963.

36
. Pat Livingston, “Snead's Passes Pose Threat for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 19, 1963.

37
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 75.

38
. Jack Walsh, “Redskins Beaten on Two Miscues,”
Washington Post
, Oct. 21, 1963.

39
. William N. Wallace, “Barnes Aims to Step Less Lively,”
New York Times
, Oct. 2, 1963.

40
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Muffed Chance for 2nd Week in Row,” Oct. 14, 1963.

41
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Was Given OK,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 21, 1963.

42
.
Lou Cordileone, conversation, April 30, 2010.

43
. Jimmy Miller, “Steelers Have Special Rooters,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.

44
. Livingston, “Johnson Was Given OK.”

45
. Ibid.

46
. “Haley Big ‘Thief,'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 21, 1963.

GAME 7

1
. Roy Blount Jr.,
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1974), 17.

2
. Art Rooney Jr.,
Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and His Clan
(n.p.: Author, 2008), 115.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Mervin Hyman, Morton Sharnik, and Herman Weiskopf, “Big Men of the Midwest,”
Sports Illustrated
, Sept. 16, 1960.

10
. “Stanley Woodward's All-Sectional Team for the Midwest,”
Stanley Woodward's Football
, Nov. 1960, 40.

11
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008; Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.

12
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.

13
. Red Mack, conversation, Aug. 8, 2007.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.

16
. “Mack Shows Speed in Steeler Scrimmage,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 6, 1961.

17
. “Red Mack Starts in Steeler Drills,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 6, 1961.

18
. “Military Status Steeler Concern,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, July 28, 1961; Tom Landry, “Ex-Steeler Moegele Big Help to Dallas,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 22, 1961.

19
. Chester L. Smith, “Rooney U. Hopes Red Mack's Knees Can Stand Strain,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 10, 1961.

20
. Bobby Layne with Fred Katz, “Pro Football's 11 Meanest Men,”
Sport
, Nov. 1964, 14.

21
. Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.

22
. Ibid.; Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008; Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.

23
. 1962 Steeler press guide.

24
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.

25
. Jack Sell, “The Two Seasons,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.

26
.
Tom Landry, “The Cowboys Figure to Ride a Little Harder This Year,” in
Pro Football The Pros Football '63, 1963
, ed. Herbert M. Furlow (New York: Counterpoint, 1963), 55.

27
. Tex Maule, “A Shuttle Shakes Up the Pros,”
Sports Illustrated
, Nov. 5, 1962, 16.

28
. Don Schiffer,
Pro Football 1963
(New York: Pocket Books, 1963), 32.

29
. “‘God of Heavens' Rites Revived,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1963.

30
. Roger Lane, “Steel Firms Tell of Bright Profits,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 24, 1963 (AP).

31
. Lee McInerney, “Berle, Smith Top 2 Bills,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 21, 1963.

32
. Mel McKeachie, “Joey Heatherton Finds Pittsburgh ‘Beautiful,'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1963.

33
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Made 8-Point Picks,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1963.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Faces Fight to Regain Fullback Job,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 24, 1963.

36
. Sell, “Steelers Made 8-Point Picks.”

37
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Faces Fight to Regain Fullback Job”

38
. “Steeler Foes Prefer Games at Stadium,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 22, 1963.

39
. Al Abrams, “Good Seating Big Help,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Dec. 5, 1962.

40
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, April 30, 2010.

41
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.

42
. Al Abrams, “Done Up Red and Brown,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 28, 1963.

43
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 38.

44
. Sam Blair, “Cowboys Lose Again,”
Dallas Morning News
, Oct. 28, 1963; Al Abrams, “Cowboys Fight Back,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 28, 1963.

45
. Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”

46
. Blair, “Cowboys Lose Again”; Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”

47
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.

48
. Al Abrams, “Done Up Red and Brown.”

49
. Ibid.

50
. Pat Livingston, “Brown Unloaded Long ‘Bomb' and Hoped Mack Would Nab It,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.

51
. Ibid.

52
. Peter Golenbock,
Landry's Boys: An Oral History of a Team and an Era
(Chicago: Triumph Books, 2005), 149.

53
. Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”

54
. Abrams, “Done Up Red and Brown.”

55
. Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”

56
. UPI, “Giants Pull Browns Down with Crowd,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.

57
. Livingston, “Brown Unloaded Long ‘Bomb.'”

GAME 8

1
. Tommy Devine, “Parker Keeps It Simple,”
Sports Illustrated
, Nov. 15, 1954, 29.

2
. Tommy Devine and Bob Latshaw, “The Man Who Stirred up the Lions,”
Sport
, Oct. 1954, 82.

3
. Ibid., 80.

4
. Devine, “Parker Keeps It Simple,” 29.

5
. Stanley Frank, “He Dies for Detroit Every Week,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Nov. 13, 1954, 109.

6
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.

7
. Arthur Daley, “Another Abrupt Departure,”
New York Times
, Sept. 8, 1965.

8
. Frank, “He Dies for Detroit,” 109.

9
. “A Pride of Lions,”
Time
, Nov. 29, 1954, 58.

10
. Frank, “He Dies for Detroit,” 109.

11
. Ibid., 112.

12
. AP, “Slashing Centenary Halfback: Centenary Has Edge on Texas,”
Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald Journal
, Oct. 21, 1934.

13
. “Lions on the Loose,”
Newsweek
, Aug. 26, 1957, 90.