in the book are linebacker Wayne Walker, quarterback Milt Plum, future Hall of Famers cornerback Dick "Night Train" Lane and middle linebacker Joe Schmidt, and defensive tackle Alex Karras, among others. However, Karras' inclusion is exclusively through the stories about him told by teammates, coaches and other team personnel. Karras missed the 1963 season serving a suspension for gambling on football games. Prior to Paper Lion, Plimpton had pitched to major league baseball players and sparred with boxing great Archie Moore, but the success of this book, which was later adapted into a 1968 film starring Alan Alda as Plimpton, helped launch a kind of second career for Plimpton as an everyman athlete. Plimpton followed Paper Lion with books about golf and ice hockey, as well as two more football books. In an interview with Tom Bean and Luke Poling, the filmmakers of the documentary, Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself, Joe Schmidt talked about how the team reacted to Plimpton's presence. "He tried to blend in with the rest of the team, but after a while you could just see that George wasn't much of an athlete. You don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to figure that one out. You're in training camp and you're all pretty good football players, and George comes along, and he's sort of emaciated looking, you know he's not too physical of a specimen. And he couldn't throw the ball more than 15 yards." Reception Saturday Review called Paper Lion "the best book written about pro football—-maybe about any sport—because Plimpton captures with absolute fidelity how the average fan might feel given the opportunity to try out for a professional football team." Stefan Fatsis joined the Denver Broncos as a kicker for preseason training camp in 2006. His story, which has been compared to Paper Lion, was told in A Few Seconds of Panic. Plimpton! The Great Quarterback Sneak He did a reprise eight years later at age 44 for Plimpton! The Great Quarterback Sneak, an hour-long Wolper Productions television special which aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on November 26, 1971. This time around, he worked out with the defending Super Bowl V champion Baltimore Colts in preparation for a preseason game against the Lions in the first-ever professional gridiron contest played at Michigan Stadium on August 22, three months prior to the program's airing. His adviser for the project was