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Dick Butkus, the ultimate football player, helped build the modern NFL

Forget the owners and Pete Rozelle. Rough-and-tumble players like Butkus made the league the true national pastime in the 1960s and ’70s.
Forget the owners and Pete Rozelle. Rough-and-tumble players like Butkus made the league the true national pastime in the 1960s and ’70s.