Mercury on the Colts

Interesting stuff, actually

On if he would have been verbally upset with Coach Shula had he done something similar and removed him from an important game:

“Of course, of course. There’s nothing to do. Let me tell you something, not on that scale, in ‘73 in the last game that we played in ‘73 in the regular season – Zonk and I could have been…we were the first tandem 1,000 yard team. I went in to the game needing 46 yards and Zonk needed 54. Shula held me out that game because I had been hurt the two weeks prior to that and he wanted to rest me up for the playoffs. I didn’t give it a second thought. And even thought I lost a whopping $3,500 bucks if I had gained 1,000 yards, the most important thing was to get ready for the playoffs and go through and win that. Only about six or seven years ago I’d say did I get pissed off about it.”