Mad Ducks and BearsMad Ducks and Bears is the engaging companion to George Plimpton's Paper Lion. In this book, Plimpton's personal favorite, he rejoins two of his football teammates from the Detroit Lions, linemen John Gordy and Alex Karras, to talk about their careers in this sometimes brutal, always fascinating game.Mad Ducks and Bears is a more reflective, less madcap book than what we have come to expect from Plimpton - but no less truthful and searching. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 256 pages) |
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... Chicago Bears in an exhibition game in Norman , Oklahoma . What a way to break in ! What happened was that Jim David was playing cornerback for us , and he was the roughest who ever played that position . If a line judge wandered into ...
... Chicago Bears in an exhibition game in Norman , Oklahoma . What a way to break in ! What happened was that Jim David was playing cornerback for us , and he was the roughest who ever played that position . If a line judge wandered into ...
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... Chicago Bears . " I learned to run from Teddy , ” Alex said . " I hung around with his crowd , and when Louie played we'd go down to the football field to watch . It cost money to get in , so we sneaked in over a tall barbed - wire ...
... Chicago Bears . " I learned to run from Teddy , ” Alex said . " I hung around with his crowd , and when Louie played we'd go down to the football field to watch . It cost money to get in , so we sneaked in over a tall barbed - wire ...
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... Chicago Bears were that sort of team too , their defense notoriously rough , and invariably big and quick - tempered , conceived in the George Halas mold and perpetuated by the " Monsters of the Midway " sobriquet which conditioned them ...
... Chicago Bears were that sort of team too , their defense notoriously rough , and invariably big and quick - tempered , conceived in the George Halas mold and perpetuated by the " Monsters of the Midway " sobriquet which conditioned them ...
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