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Connecticut Gridiron - Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s (Paperback)
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Connecticut Gridiron - Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s (Paperback)
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This narrative history of minor league football teams in
Connecticut during the 60s and 70s is based on extensive newspaper
and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former
players, broadcasters and journalists. Only a few players - such as
Marv Hubbard, Lou Piccone and Bob Tucker - emerged from the minors
and made it to the NFL, but many more played for as little as $25
per game in their quest to make it big, or just to have fun playing
the game they loved. Wealthy men like Pete Savin and Frank
D'Addario got to live their dreams by owning teams in Hartford and
Bridgeport. In the days before cable television saturated the media
with live sports, small town fans turned out to support their local
heroes, often men who worked on construction crews during the week,
and stopped by the diner Sunday morning to talk football. Now in
their 60s, 70s and 80s, these men share their stories of a simpler
era; the good times, like the Hartford Knights' 1968 ACFL
championship season, and the long bus rides and missed paydays that
were as much a part of minor league ball as first downs and
interceptions.
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