Playboy's Pigskin Preview

October, 2001

Playboy's Pigskin PreviewIt started in 1957. President Eisenhower was in his second term. McDonald's hamburgers cost 15 cents. The Edsel was just going into production. Thirty-one-year-old Hugh Hefner was editing his astonishingly successful men's magazine on the eve of its fourth year. Collier's magazine had just folded, and Hefner, a magazine fan, realized that a special annual sports feature, Collier's pigskin preview and preseason All-America team, was about to be orphaned. He immediately ca...