Mel Gray

A Gray Day in Detroit

LIFE ON THE EDGE

And then some. Favored L.A. took 93 minutes 33 seconds to knock Michigan out of the USFL playoffs

For the author, the photograph of him failing as a pass defender in the 1971 East-West Game summoned up a painful memory. For Mel Gray, who caught the ball, and Dan Pastorini, who threw it, the recollection is elating

That's what Quarterback Roger Staubach kept asking as his usually sure-handed Dallas receivers kept dropping touchdown passes while the Cowboys were dropping their first game of the season to the St. Louis Cardinals