2014年8月29日星期五

They were on the cut- ting edge in every phase of football

At Pacific I was making $28,000 fifa 15 coins pc a year. I had free use of a new car from a local dealership. I had a nice little apartment in Stockton. How much did I want to work for the 49ers? I accepted a salary of $800 a month, about a third of what I was making at Pacific, with no contract. I bought a small, unfur- nished efficiency apartment. I didn’t have a car, so I rode my bike to work. When I worked late (which was most of the time), rather than try to make the long bike ride home in the dark, I would just sleep at the team’s training facility and office com- plex. Not that that was a horrible experience or anything. Team owner Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., spared no expense in build- ing the Marie P. DeBartolo Sports Centre, named in honor of his mother. The place was like the Taj Mahal. It was a two- story, 52,000-square-foot building that sat on eleven acres. It had a state-of-the-art fitness room, a thirty-foot-by-forty-foot hydrotherapy indoor swimming pool, racquetball courts, a whole bunch of meeting rooms, and all other amenities to make for the most comfortable and productive work environment for players, coaches, staff and media. I’d sleep in a room adjacent to the giant office of Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. It had a refrigerator, a TV and a nice, comfortable couch. He was fine with that, and the best part was I didn’t have to make the bed in the morning.

The 49ers’ image was just stunning. They were on the cut- ting edge in every phase of football. Everything they did wasn’t first class; it was above that. They had great coaches and play- ers. They had Joe Montana at quarterback, Steve Young at backup quarterback. They had Jerry Rice in his prime, when he was really heating it up, when that fastball was two hundred miles an hour. They had John Taylor, Roger Craig, Tom Rath- man, Brent Jones. They had guys who understood the system and who knew the responsibility they had to dominate. They were coming off back-to-back Super Bowls, and Eddie DeBar- tolo was going to make sure they had every reason to win the next one—the best coaches, the best players, the best facilities, along with the right kind of morale and chemistry to produce a winning attitude.

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