‘Honest Bob’ Stanfield was a class act all the way

Robert Stanfield refused to engage in the kind of media bashing so popular today

Robert Stanfield's grimacing face has been staring down at me from my wall for about 25 years. He looks as if he's in pain as he grabs his own hands instead of the football that appears not only to have slipped through his fingers, but may have also hit him in the groin.

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