He scored 40 times in an eight-year NFL career, best known, now, for the touchdown he didnâ??t score, as the sun set over Yankee Stadium on Dec. 28, 1958. His wife of 59 years, Joan, said that Jim Mutscheller, who died on April 10, wanted to be known as a man â??who had led a good life,â? for he was â??quiet, humble, and so conservative that heâ??d eat crabs with a suit and tie on.â?
And therein lies a taleâ??and a yardstick by which to measure pro sports then and now.
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