Chong said he began to hallucinate on the third day in the cell. He urinated on a metal bench so he could have something to drink. He also stacked a blanket, his pants and shoes on a bench and tried to reach an overhead fire sprinkler, futilely swatting at it with his cuffed hands to set it off..To begin with, Professional Football in the 1970 was a different game than that of today, and for that reason alone recent teams can be discounted as being the greatest of all time. Back then, steroids were not an issue, whatever skills players had came naturally without the aid of chemistry. Additionally, players played hurt it was expected of them and it separated the men from the boys, so to speak.

"I know that I'm not a real high guy, and my agent tells me how it is," he said. "He doesn't try to blow a bunch of smoke up your tail. I just hope I get a chance.Thomas Lake wrote a story for Sport's Illustrated that did not focus on Carruth's horrible crime all these