INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. Edited by Dick Schaap. 286 pages. World. $5.95.
"We've got to be whipped. We've got to be cussed. ... He whipped us, but we needed whipping." This is no simple disciple of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch talking, but a professional football player trying to attain the mystical condition of "upness" or "winning attitude," which, according to American tradition, has to be artificially induced by alternate whippings and strokings from an older man.
Jerry Kramer slaves for the Green Bay Packers—the football equivalent of the Radio City...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
