Prior to Super Bowl I against Vince Lombardi’s daunting Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs fullback Curtis McClinton was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times in part thusly: “And where do they get that 18½-point spread on the games? How can anybody figure the Packers are that many points better?”
As it turns out, of course, the Packers covered easily, winning by a score of 35-10…