Gil Brandt Draft Quotations

The medical part is paramount. It becomes more and more paramount every day, because the bonuses keep going up, and nobody wants to draft somebody who can't pass the physical.

Historically we do not draft safeties high. So many guys that stay that extra year bear out so much better.

This was in the late 1950s, and we held the draft in Philadelphia because that's where the commissioner, Bert Bell, had his office.