Event Date: August 22nd, 1982
Event Description: No Stone Unturned?
Source: Chicago Tribune
A linebacker now in prison for armed robbery wants to play pro football, and George Allen, head coach and part-owner of the Chicago Blitz franchise in the fledgling U.S. Football League, wants to give him a tryout.
Allen wants a look at Michael Stifford, a Berwyn, Illinois, resident serving a 12-year sentence at Logan Correctional Center, the Chicago Tribune said in a story prepared for today's editions.
“If we can't get him a furlough, I will go down to Lincoln myself and give him a tryout,” said Allen, the former NFL head coach who created the so-called “Over-the-Hill Gang” when he coached the Washington Redskins.
Stifford, 23, is eligible for parole next January, just before the USFL is scheduled to begin its first season.
He wrote Allen, saying he is 6-foot-6, 225 pounds, and can bench press 420 pounds and run the 40-yard dash in 4.8 seconds. “I love football. I can play,” he wrote Allen. “Give me a chance and I will make you proud to say you did.”
The Tribune said Stifford was voted most valuable player when he played on the Stateville Correctional Center team.
(Story-Chicago Tribune/UPI)
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