I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
“The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.”