They Said It

?Al Denson, Denver wide receiver, explaining what it's like to be tackled at the same moment you catch the ball: "It's like walking out of a store with a bag of groceries and getting hit by a car. Sometimes you don't care what happens to the bag."

?Ottis Mooney, defensive coach at the University of Miami, on recruiting: "I had one real good one in Florida to recruit. I really worked on the parents, believing it to be the way. Coach Paul Bryant of Alabama worked on the boy. I dined and danced with the boy's mother. The boy went to Alabama. The mother enrolled at Miami."