Red Smith, sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, quoted Lombardi. "I had a visit the other day from two FBI agents," the coach told his players. "They told me they are keeping a closer watch than ever on all professional sports. The attorney general reads every report that comes in on professional sports and you all know what that means. You have all had this explained before, but I will explain it again." "There were also reports, somewhat more ominous, about bookmakers scrubbing several names off the board. Usually this means the bookmakers have reason, or think they have reason, to believe things are not what they seem." Tuesday January 8 the Press-Gazette's sports pages were dominated by stories either about the investigation or connected to the subject of the investigation, meaning gambling and any players who might be associated with gamblers or other such lowlifes. "That the Senate Investigations subcommittee planned a probe of the situation and that the NFL was continuing its own investigation." After the Packers clinched the division title, an article appeared in the Press-Gazette that shook up all of Packerdom. ... Even NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle poured gasoline on the fire when he said, "Lombardi can go anywhere and write his own ticket."> Two kicks gone awry. Just two. What if ...? There's always a "what if...?" The 1964 pro football season was finally over. Prices for rookies had been going up little by little for the first five years of the cold war between the NFL and the AFL. Sonny Werblin, the managing partner of the New York Jets, had decided it was time to heat things up a bit.