Sport: Two-Way Elway Gets His Way

The No. 1 N.F.L. pick beats Baltimore with a baseball bat

New York Giants General Manager George Young, a stupendously large man with touchingly weak eyes and a gentle outlook on most things, refers to football players in terms of livestock, as in "The Cincinnati Bengals certainly have the livestock." Since most pro-football people speak this way, it was kind of exciting over the past two weeks when the meat talked back.

Quarterback John Elway of Stanford, the first item up for bid at the National Football League's annual college mart, declined to show his teeth to the Baltimore Colts, who did not...