In the garish expanse of the Moderne Room in Manhattan's Belmont Plaza Hotel last week, Pro Football Commissioner Pete Rozelle stood up and patiently repeated the same announcement half a dozen times for the benefit of the surrounding cameras and microphones: "The Buffalo Bills select O. J. Simpson, halfback, University of Southern California."
Thus last week began the third annual combined draft of the National and American Football Leagues. There was never a moment's doubt about Simpson: under the rules, the team with the poorest record has the right to make its...
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