I’m old - I got to know some of the old Baltimore Colts as well when we lived in Towson - Gino Marchetti and Artie Donovan and Ordell Braase in particular- all they cared about was playing football. They didn’t get paid if they didn’t play and they didn’t make all that much when they did play.
Artie used to say that football was invented to keep coal miners off the streets.
Mel Farr, 1967