Ferocious Jack Tatum, at left combining with Skip Thomas to nail Minnesota's Sammy White in Super Bowl XI, was a softy off the field. At practice the next morning, and for most of the rest of the ...

The distance from deep rough and a tree in front of him wasn’t going to allow Thomas to loft the ball high, so he hit a stinger iron. The camera caught him saying, “Skip … skip,” and sure ...