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Pete Rozelle, professional football commissioner, works at blackboard at hotel in New York City on March 14, 1967 as he conducts the combined National Football League (NFL) ? American Football league (AFL) football player draft. (AP Photo/Jacob Harris)

The 1967 NFL Draft changed the face of league

A half-century ago the NFL Draft was so simple NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle stood at a chalkboard in a New York hotel ballroom. He scrawled names in chalk as they were called out. The anticipation hovering over the draft was not about who would go where. It was relief -- to the owners, not the players -- that athletes were taken by only one team. The 1967 draft was the first since the NFL-AFL merger that ended bidding…

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Michigan State at Chapel Hill in 1964 enlightened the South and college football

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ---Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad/Roughing It By TOM SHANAHAN We’re unable to know a half-century later if Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty and North Carolina coach Jim Hickey appreciated Mark Twain’s book, “Innocents Abroad/Roughing It.” But their milestone game…

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