The saga began in 1971, when Kapp was ordered to sign a standard player’s contract at the end of his first season with the Boston Patriots.
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the National Football League (1974) is one of the landmark cases in the ongoing struggle between professional sports club owners and their athletes-the owners and the owned. Few fans will remember (nor likely cared much at the time) but Joseph R. In July, when the NFL lockout was still in effect, I asked Kapp to discuss a particular chapter in his life’s story namely, his eight-year legal battle with the NFL. “But hell, that’s the story with all us old guys.” “My only problem is I can’t count to ten anymore,” Kapp responds when asked how he’s doing. An observer can’t help but be reminded of the younger Kapp, the famously hardnosed competitor, gritting his teeth behind the single horizontal bar of his facemask. Straining to retrieve an errant memory, he sometimes grimaces with the effort.
At 73, Kapp is still a live wire-spry, with a wicked sense of humor-but the struggle to remember has become hard, almost physical, work for him.
Every day, he says, he tries to dictate a little more of his life’s story. Sitting down to talk on a recent summer day, the old quarterback patted his shoulder bag, which contained an iPad equipped with voice recognition software. Joe Kapp is finally ready to get it all down on paper-the whole thing, from his hardscrabble upbringing in Salinas to his heyday in the pros from his first appearance in Memorial Stadium in 1956 to his return, 25 years later, as the head coach at his alma mater.
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