(Editor's note: Normally BSJ doesn't publish stories unless they have a strong New England connection, but BSJ member Ken Hartnett is a veteran newspaperman and this remembrance of a legendary NFL player was very insightful, and good quarantine fodder.)
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Ken Hartnett covered the Green Bay Packers for the Associated Press from 1965 through 1968. He became an investigative reporter in Washington in 1969 before joining the staff of the Boston Globe where he headed the urban teams and wrote columns and editorials. He later worked in Boston television , was managing editor of the Boston Herald, editor of Boston Magazine, editor of the Middlesex News and retired as editor of the New Bedford Standard-Times. In retirement, he follows the fortunes of the New England Patriots.