SI Vault Robert F. Jones July 11, 1977 What do pro football
players do after the final gun of the last game and before the
first whistle of summer training camp? Nine members of the NFL
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Articles View This Issue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Brown watches the
exercise riders move out, up the green meadows, under the
budding tulip trees, the long light of the afternoon glinting on
the stretching muscles of the thoroughbreds, the long, slim legs
reaching to grab earth and then spurning it behind them. He
shakes his head in awed approval.  "Can you imagine being able
to run like that?" Brown asks. "It must be magnificent. I could
never work with house pets now, I don't think. There's so much
silly stuff connected with house pets in this day and age—the
pampering, the cashmere sweaters and the jeweled collars, all
those ridiculous TV commercials for new kitty tidbits. You look
at animals like these