Playboy's Pro Football Preview

August, 1974

Ted Hendricks, the Baltimore Colts' cerebral linebacker, sat in a Chicago delicatessen methodically devouring a two-inch-thick hot-pastrami sandwich. He was in town for the N.F.L. Players Association strike strategy meeting and he brimmed with quiet enthusiasm for the justness of his cause. Midway through the meal, he was asked if the players' financial demands weren't somewhat unreasonable."Actually," he explained, "the freedom issues are more important to us than the money issue...

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