‘"We’d have a team party on Tuesday nights downtown at a place called Mr. Anthony’s on Delaware," Maguire said. "There was a meeting room upstairs, and it was kinda neat those years we were winning. We’d get after it and look at the film. Then we’d separate and go over it by position. Jack never missed coming to one of those parties. He didn’t drink, but he was there. Through all his life, through his political career, Jack was a team player. And the one thing in his mind that every one of the guys who played with him will remember is there’s nobody who wanted to win more than Jack Kemp."’
Archives for March 5, 2011
In Pro Athletes’ Finances, a Defensive Line Pays
‘Yet Mr. Posluszny, whose mother is a teacher and his father a mechanic, said he was well aware of the financial problems that a rush of wealth had caused many professional athletes. And he did not want to be among them. “I knew I wanted to be in something safe and secure,” he said. “A long career isn’t guaranteed. I wanted to have this money for life.”‘