Connecticut Gridiron: Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s

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This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut Within the 1960s and 1970s is in response to extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists. Only some players–like Marv Hubbard, Lou Piccone and Bob Tucker–made it to the NFL, but many more played for as low as $25 per game in their quest to make it big or just have fun. Rich men like Pete Savin and Frank D’Addario owned teams in Hartford and Bridgeport. Within the days before cable tv saturated the media with live sports, small town fans turned out to enhance their local heroes, ceaselessly men who worked on construction crews all through 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 part of minor league ball as first downs and interceptions.

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