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After the Vikings won the Central Di- the NFL championship. We had beaten ball to the goal line by whatever means
M vision title we had to play Los An- them 51-3 in a league game earlier- necessary. Those two guys would go
geles for the Western championship, and one of those games where we could do through a brick wall if you painted a
our team really did a job. That was the nothing wrong and the opponents could goal line on the other side. You have to
game where we were behind 17- 7 at the do nothing right-but we knew that club .them with a stick to stop them.
half after I assisted in a crucial fumble. they had some horses, At this stage of Later on I made a play that every-
Then I managed to throw two inter- the season we were running on sheer mo- body talked about, but it really wasn't
ceptions. But in the second half our de- mentum; we had come too far to blow as sensational as it looked. To begin
fense held-as it had been holding all it all now, and Cleveland couldn't stop with, you have to understand that it's
year-and we put together two of the us. Early in the game I called a hand- against my principles to run the ball
prettiest touchdown drives you've ever off to Billy Brown, but he slipped on out of bounds. Football is just as much
seen to beat one of the finest teams in the ice and I had nobody to hand off a game of inches as baseball or any oth-
football 23-20. They tell me that Ram to, so I barged through the left side of er game, and you've got to get every
Coach George Allen is still going around our line and went in for a touchdown. inch you can. Frankly, I'd be embar-
shaking his head and saying, "I can't They told me I left Walter Johnson and rassed to run out of bounds just to avoid
believe it. I can't believe it!" I don't Mike Howell sprawled behind me. I getting hit. J.J. might be watching the
blame him. He had the game won, but don't even remember hitting them. I gave game on television, and I wouldn't want
somebody forgot to teJJ the Vikings. it the old Bill Brown-Dave Osborn tech- him to think that his old man lacked ma-
Now we had to face Cleveland for nique. Their idea is that you take the chismo. Well, in the NFL continued

AARON BROWN OF THE CHIEFS SLAMS INTO KAPP, CAUSING A FUMBLE. SUBSEQUENTLY, BROWN KNOCKED KAPP OUT OF THE GAME