Playboy's Pro Football Preview

August, 1981

Professional football may be the most perfect form of show business ever invented. While movies, TV and stage productions are plotted and scripted weeks or months in advance, in the N.F.L. the outcomes of races and games are as much of a surprise to the participants as they are to the audiences. Who would have guessed a year ago that the Oakland Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles would wind up in the Super Bowl, or that Jim Plunkett would be everyone's player of the year? Hell, we didn't even k...

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