Who also got off one of the greatest movie lines ever on a young Patrick Swayze "boy, using that oriental martial bullshit is gonna get real expensive"
I don't think so. I remember Matuszak in Caveman and The Ice Pirates and a bunch of TV guest appearances. You are thinking of Tex Cobb, who was a former professional boxer. He beat Shavers and Spinks but lost to Larry Holmes in a heavyweight title fight.
I saw that fight on TV. Holmes gave Cobb a brutal bloody beating. Cobb's face was nothing but a mass of blood but he refused to go down. It went the 15 round distance. It was the fight that Howard Cosell said he was so disgusted that they didn't stop the fight that he would never broadcast boxing again
Bear Bryant's original employment contract with Texas A&M was recently discovered and put on display at a ceremony this week. His salary was $15,000 per year plus 1 percent of ticket sales.
Coaches and players didn't make anywhere near the kind of money they do today. I was a young kid in the 60's when the Green Bay Packers were winning every year. Hall of Fame running back Jim Taylor from Baton Rouge and LSU lived in a house in my neighborhood during the off season. It was just a regular house in a middle class neighborhood, not a mansion or anything that would be on Cribs. My Dad had a regular job at Exxon and we lived in a bigger house than an NFL superstar.
