Seventeen and Oh Corrections

Page 49, correct to: “DeMarco...tossed back a high snap that Noonan couldn’t handle…. Noonan chased the ball down and was crushed by a cornerback.” (DeMarco's snap was high but not over the head; if Noonan hadn't been so surprised he might have caught it. And it was a single player, Willie Buchanon, not "an avalanche of Packers," who plowed Noonan into the turf and ended his career.)

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For all you Williams grads: on page 157, it should be “Lord Jeffery Amherst,” not Jeffrey. (Thanks to Gina Hahn.)

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Page 182, correct to: “A year later, though, in 1971, he convinced Shula to give him a tryout at camp, and the Dolphins signed him as a free agent. Since then he’d been mostly on the taxi squad, even after a strong preseason this year. He’d outperformed Morrall in the exhibition games, but of course when the season began Shula kept the former league MVP as the backup and relegated the free agent to third string again.” Fixes repetition of "taxi squad," and Morrall was never the Super Bowl MVP. (Thanks to Sean Boardman.)

 

Page 265, correct to: “He was wide open, but linebacker Billy Andrews knocked him to the ground rather than get beat for a touchdown. The penalty made it first and goal at the eight-yard line.”  Richard Durr's fabulous YouTube site, which presents much video of the games that I cold not find, paired with the WIOD radio broadcasts, has led me to correct some details that I got from newspaper coverage. In this case, Warfield was never free in the end zone, because he never got there. Andrews decked him at the five, but the refs must have made an error, because they placed the ball at the eight.