Perhaps Vince Lombardi described John Symank best in
his 1963 book Run To Daylight. “He
is only 5-11 and at 180 pounds he is the lightest man on this squad.
Compared with the others he looks like a baseball infielder, but he
is a football player. The Packers drafted him out of the University
of Florida in 1957 and that year he was fourth in the league in interceptions.
Last year he had the highest interception-return yardage and best kickoff-return
average on this club. …There is no actor in Symank. He
is serious and intense, and in a game he would just as soon break your
leg as not. He has made it in
this league because he gets a great deal more out of himself than his
ability and size justify, and I wish I could say that about all the
rest of them. Many of them will rise for one game or two, but John gets
the maximum out of himself in every game, and if I had thirty-five others
like him I would have a far better team than I have.” |
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