Do pros play football for fun? For glory? For fulfillment? No, says Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, 35, who has played for twelve years and last season led the Philadelphia Eagles to their first championship since 1949. They play, he says in Norm Van Brocklin's Football Book (Ronald Press; $3.50), for money and marriage.
The starting salary for a National Football League rookie just out of college is about $9,000, and stars get more than $20,000 for five months' work. "Contrast that," says Van Brocklin, "with what the nonathletic C student gets along with his sheepskin. I would say that most of them...
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