";s:4:"text";s:3995:"Joe Kapp played football like a Comanche warrior chasing after his frightened horse. In truth, Kapp was more Jim Thorpe than Burt Lancaster ever was, a hard-nosed multisport athlete of mixed ancestry (Mexican-German-rascal-raconteur-hero). “ ‘Forty for 60' was the motto of those old Vikings teams,” he says by phone from his Los Gatos home, south of San Francisco. See why Joe Kapp was included in this list: Famous Alumni William S. Hart High School (Newhall, CA). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. “Forty guys playing for 60 minutes. Slap him on the back and thank him for the memories. With Brick Muller and Chuck Muncie, remembered as one of the best to ever play at Cal. The world's largest people database, organized into one-of-a-kind skills, experiences & affiliations. To this day, Kapp is a living scrapbook of gutsy, in-your-face football. At the time, the grounds crew in Bloomington, Minn., didn’t know whether to erect a headstone or a plaque. He is also a former college football head coach of the University of California, and a former general manager of the CFL's BC Lions.Kapp played primarily with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the CFL's BC Lions during the 1960-70s. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. Joe Kapp. If not, he invents his own,” Sports Illustrated’s Tex Maule wrote at the time. No one in the NFL has thrown for seven TDs since that September day in 1969. Kapp played quarterback for William S. Hart High School, located in Newhall, California. Last week I spoke with Kapp and his son, J.J., then participated in a conference at Mitchell Hamline Law School titled “Impact on the Gridiron: Safety, Accountability, and the Future of Football Joseph Robert Kapp (born March 19, 1938) is a former professional American and Canadian football quarterback. It is just one of the many historical footnotes that belong to the former Newhall Hart High School star. “My dad always said that having fun is no laughing matter,” Will says. “But it was huge in creating free agency for the NFL.” Kapp much prefers to talk about how he offered to give up his beloved tequila till his Cal team won the Rose Bowl. That’s right, seven. Yet the sport he dearly loved appears to have extracted a high price. Now, at 72, Kapp’s trademark swagger may be dialed back but he’s still full of fight (while playing for Newell, he once went into the USC locker room to seek revenge over a taunt directed at a black teammate). 22, his former number as a collegian.