Pro Football: Colts with a Kick

Pro football locker rooms are great places for signs—messages like KILL! KILL! KILL!, and USE FOOTBATH BEFORE SHOWERING, and DORIS—HU 4-6301. Come Nov. 8, when the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Colts meet again at Wrigley Field, the bulletin board in the Bears' dressing room will carry another reminder. Clipped from a newspaper headline, it says, simply, 52-0—the score by which the Colts humiliated the world-champion Bears last week.

Up Like an Auction. Other teams have taken worse drubbings, but never the Bears. "Our offense did poorly, our defense did poorly," raged Papa Bear George Halas, 69. "I apologize...

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