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Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 29, 2013, "'Their Life's Work': The game's impact on the 1970s Steelers' bodies and brains"
Falls Church News-Press, Aug. 29, 2012, "Our Man in Arlington", column by Charlie Clark.
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