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“I’ll do what every worn-down old guy does,” he replied, “I’m going to fight Jake Paul.”

Makhi McCluster chipped brown pellets into the air behind him from the dirt patch that stretched across the 50-yard line at Westchester High’s worn-down football field.

Sure enough, there at the top where the worn-down lines came together was a small indentation in the shape of a crown.

A 27-17 win over the Raiders sent the Colts back again, with future NFL coach Ray Perkins catching a long touchdown pass from Unitas on the worn-down field at Memorial Stadium.

They remembered him as a quiet and gentle man who brought homemade hummus to worn-down journalists camped outside Nasser Hospital during the war, even as Israel’s tight siege made food and water harder to find.