We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.
Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.
Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.
It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.