Giants linebacker Sam Huff poses for a photo at the NFL football team's training camp in Fairfield, Conn., in September 1963. Credit: AP/Harry Harris
Sam Huff initially was not as familiar to America as Frank Gifford, his more glamorous teammate on the Giants, and other contemporaries. But there was a time when he became for many casual fans the face of the NFL.
It was an era when pro football was early in its rise to the top of the American sports agenda, but it was not there yet, and there was Huff on the cover of Time magazine on Nov.