1) Another Golden Boy story: When I was researching the biography of Vince Lombardi, Paul Hornung was the hardest of the old glory year Packers for me to get to talk. He dodged me for a year, asking what was in it for him. He wanted money, in other words, but...

2) Finally after a year, after all the other old Packers had told him he could trust me, he invited me down to interview him in Louisville. He had a weekly TV show, and told me I should come to the show and interview him afterwards.

3) I traveled to Louisville and went to the show. When I approached him afterwards, he said, "Oh, man, sorry. Didn't they tell you? I have to fly to Raleigh in the morning and don't have time to talk....

4) I swallowed hard and said okay, I'll get you next time and went back to my room at the Seelbach hotel. I was so depressed I stayed up watching Janet Reno talking on C-Span around midnight. Then...

5) The phone rang. "Dave, it's Paul. I feel terrible about what I did. I ain't going to Raleigh. Come to my office tomorrow and we'll talk and I'll show you around my town."

6) I went to his office the next morning, he talked for hours and hours, told me all the good and the bad, the inside story of his gambling suspension, then took me around town and introduced me to....his bookie.

7) And from then until now, he could not have been more open and generous with me, in Louisville, in Green Bay, in New York when he came to see the Lombardi play on Broadway...

8) He saw the play 3 times, including the road show version in Milwaukee, when he flustered the actor playing Lombardi, and delighted the audience, by yelling some of the lines from his seat. RIP