Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1963 NFL Football Sunday Human Targets NY Giants Tittle - 2-Page Vintage Article Original, vintage magazine articlePage Size: Approx. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2" (27 cm x 34 cm) each pageCondition: Good "Get the Quarterback" is the name of the game. Through the rough National Football Leaguemassive linemen hurl themselves at smaller quarterbacks, hoping to stir a spark of terror. Saysone, "They can't tell me they don’t scare, because I've seen it in the corner of their eyes.”SUNDAY’S HUMAN TARGETSIn just a few days now the end-zonecamera will be zooming in for a close-up, and the crouching quarterback willfill the screen. Under his eyes he willwear lampblack like warpaint. On hishead a warrior's helmet will sit. Then,clear and staccato, the crack pro quarter-back will bark commands.A portrait of a captain, it will seem onthe screen, a captain confident, rugged,unafraid—to the layman. “Do you knowwhat I say to myself?" says Ed Brown, ahighly competent professional who playsquarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.“You know what 1'11 be saying when Isee that close-up of the tough quarterbackin the play-off game? 1'11 be saying, thepoor guy is going to get creamed."National League football, approachingits climactic championship game, is ourmost explosive demonstration of sanc-tioned mass violence, and in the eye ofthe violence stands the quarterback.However he may appear, he is cheerlesslyaware that he is his team's jugular veinand that the opposition would not weepwere he put out with an injury. This hasbeen true since the popularization of theT formation in 1940; but in just the pastfew years the quarterback's occupationalhazards have increased sharply. Coaches,despairing of attempts to cover bumble-bee pass-receivers, placed new emphasison smothering the passer. Thus, on onerecent Sunday Y. A. Tittle, the skilled,elusive New York Giant veteran, emergedwith blood streaming down his face, not-withstanding the face bar he wore;Philadelphia’s Sonny Jurgensen retired tothe sidelines, his throwing arm bashed bya 245-pound tackle; and Green Bayquarterback Bart Starr, slugged by adefensive halfback, left the brawl and thegame with a broken hand.Men who make their living playing de-fense are transformed the moment theysee a quarterback light out from behindhis cup of blockers. One shot at him inopen field can decide a game. The job ismore difficult under a pileup, where thequarterback can snuggle up to layers ofbeef, but a knee or an elbow placedfirmly against the small of his back doesdamage and is judicious.At times, Chicago quarterback BillWade wishes he were a halfback for aplay or two. Halfbacks block, and a hardblock makes a nice repayment to anopponent who has been uncouth. "Buta quarterback,” Wade points out, “is apiece of merchandise that has to lasttwenty games. You've just got to condi-tion yourself to being a target.” 14015-AL-631221-06
Price: 14.11 USD
Location: Kingsport, Tennessee
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Year: 1963
Sport: Football
