We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

We started the game with two backs in the backfield, ... It was all very subtle changes on the offensive line.

It had the atmosphere of a regular season game.

We are the only team to start the season with 21 losses, so we are not going to be off the hook,

They see the finish line and they don't want the season to slip away. They want to finish above .500. They have pride.

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.