Sport: A Man's Game

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Power to Spare. So is pro football. Already solidly in the black (projected profits this season for San Francisco: $500,000), the N.F.L. is eying the growing national interest in the game (CBS's pro-football TV audience: some 20 million) and planning to expand to Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas next year. What is more, the newly formed American Football League, headed by Dallas Oilman Lamar Hunt, has high hopes of playing next year in Houston, Dallas, New York, Denver, Boston, Buffalo and Los Angeles. Says Hunt: "Unless the N.F.L. folds, there will be two professional football leagues next year."

What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load."