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In the mid-1960s, the NFL launched Operation Hand-Holding, a plan in which the league hired babysitters to supervise college players and hide them from the AFL. The AFL's Chiefs and Raiders responded with dramatic missions to steal them back.
Do you like spy movies? Do you like football? Well, I have the perfect story for you. As we all know, the NFL and AFL weren't the friendliest of leagues during the latter's existence in the 1960s. Besides the Super Bowl and various players swapping sides, the two also fought over where college football stars would start their pro careers. In this Cold War-era "cold war", both sides devised various ways to prevent college prospects from joining the other, ranging from throwing money around to espionage. During the mid-decade, the NFL had a rather unique way of doing this...
Prelude
Since the inaugural season in 1960, the upstart AFL found itself in the middle of a standoff with the larger NFL over the futures of various college players; their drafts were marred by selected players choosing to play for the other league, with many like future Hall of Famer Bob Lilly were chosen by teams in both drafts.[1] In other cases, players like 1959 Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon even signed contracts with both AFL and NFL teams. For some teams, they experimented with various espionage-like ways to get their desired player. Chiefs (then-Dallas Texans) owner Lamar Hunt wanted Lilly and linebacker E.J. Holub, who were both playing in the 1961 East-West Shrine Game. In a practice (which was closed off to all pro football personnel), Hunt snuck into the crowd with no supporting cast and went largely unnoticed... until he was noticed and kicked out. As it turned out, Lilly had already signed with the Cowboys, though Hunt successfully signed Holub so his mission wasn't a complete write-off.[1] Others were more aggressive in their approach. Raiders boss Al Davis signed future Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff moments after he played in the Gator Bowl. He did the same during his tenure with Lance Alworth during his tenure with the Chargers.[2] In their book The Other League: The Fabulous Story of the American Football League, Jack Horrigan and Mike Rathet wrote of strange gifts being offered in exchange for playing for certain teams. Marty Schottenheimer, who was drafted by the NFL's Colts and AFL's Bills, joined the latter as his contract included a rear window defroster for his car.[11]
Commencing the Operation
The year was 1964. The AFL, in its fifth year of operation, was closing the gap on the NFL with the acquisition of NBC as a broadcast partner on a lucrative deal. As the 1964 drafts loomed, the NFL was keen on preventing more defections to the AFL, especially with the high-profile likes of Joe Namath joining the rival league. During the summer, Commissioner Pete Rozelle went to Los Angeles to visit his former boss, Rams owner Dan Reeves. Reeves, who was closely following the AFL/NFL war, proposed a solution to the NFL's predicament: Operation Hand-Holding. True to its strange name, people were hired to serve as mentors for college players entering the draft, advising them and encouraging them to sign with the NFL; in other words, they were "holding the players' hands" and guiding them along like a parent. Officially called "NFL representatives", they were basically babysitters.[3] Reeves presented it as a way for players to quickly "form relationships" with the NFL, similar to fraternities processing new pledges. Rozelle enlisted his friend Jack Landry, who worked at Philip Morris International, to get some employees onboard to serve as the reps. After three weeks of planning alongside Rams PR director Bert Rose, Rozelle approved the operation.[3] Although it was a small-scale campaign at first, it greatly expanded in 1965, reaching as many as 125 members.[16] Besides Landry's colleagues, other babysitters included NFL scouts and former players like Colts running back Buddy Young and Bears end Hampton Pool, along with various businessmen. Each babysitter was presented with an instructional brochure that elaborated on two stages: "The Problem" (the AFL) and "The Solution" (the operation). The brochure explained to achieve the latter, the babysitter would have to "mentally condition" the player to decide on the NFL. The operation would last two weeks leading up to the NFL Draft.[3] To accomplish their goals, the babysitters did more than just tell their assigned players to join the NFL; they also had to shut out as much influence from the AFL as possible. For a number of them, this went to a rather extreme level. In one situation, 27 college players found themselves stuck in a Detroit hotel as their babysitters tried to ward off AFL scouts trying to reach out to them.[3] In a way, the NFL was holding players hostage. Steelers owner Dan Rooney explained the situation:[4]
"The hand-holding thing was something that we did because (the AFL) was more or less trying to steal quarterbacks and get college kids to sign early. We felt the best way to prevent this was to get a relationship with the college kids. So we would get a guy, and we called them hand-holders, and they would go in and get to know the kids, and they treated them good."
Babysitters received various benefits from the NFL to help them out. For example, each supervisor had a "gold card" that permitted them and their player to board any United Airlines flight of their choosing, with all costs paid for by the league. Landry also found additional use in the card when he got out of having to pay a Merritt Parkway speeding ticket upon presenting it to the officer. Besides this, a babysitter was also given a bonus of their choice: they could accept either a daily salary of $50 (around $400 in today's currency; since this was a two-week operation, it would be approximately $700 in total, or about $5,500 when adjusted to 2018) or a present that varied each year. In 1964, it was a Zenith radio; a year later, it was a Tiffany silver platter with the NFL logo engraved and a set of cordial glasses.[3] On Draft Day, the NFL established a call center in New York to allow teams and players/babysitters to quickly negotiate contracts.[16] For many NFL teams, their future Hall of Famers came in the form of poached Hand-Holding players. In 1965, the Chiefs drafted Kansas star running back Gale Sayers; besides the obvious home state connection, Sayers was married to a Kansas City resident and even stated his intention to sign with the Chiefs. Shortly after, however, Young flew to Sayers and convinced him to flip to the NFL. Sayers went on to become one of the greatest running backs in Bears history.[3] Ironically, the Chiefs/Texans tried their hand at babysitting a year before Operation Hand-Holding began. Before the 1963 draft, Hunt's friend Mack Rankin was scouting Michigan State guard Ed Budde and invited him and his wife Carolyn to dinner. Later that night, Rankin sat in his car outside their house, waiting until the Budde family went to sleep to ensure no one from the NFL would be doing some late-night recruiting. After the draft, Rankin and the Eagles sent gifts to Ed and Carolyn (a case of beer from the Eagles, yellow roses from Rankin), followed by Rankin once again doing a night watch at Budde's house. Budde later signed with the Texans.[1]
AFL Counter-Operations
Think Operation Hand-Holding sounds crazy? Well, now would be the perfect time to play the Mission Impossible theme song as background music because once the AFL caught on, things got a little crazier. Despite its hits, the operation wasn't perfect, and many players escaped their babysitters in manners that were straight out of an action film.
The Chiefs
Leading into the 1966 draft, the Steelers expressed particular interest in drafting Minnesota defensive lineman Aaron Brown and were optimistic about his chances of going to Pittsburgh. Brown was also targeted by the Chiefs, but was under watch by Young. As they were preparing to stay at a hotel, Young placed Brown on the first floor. When Young wasn't looking, Hunt sent his men to take Brown away; he went on to become a mainstay on the Chiefs' defensive line.[4] Brown was not the only success story for the Chiefs during the Hand-Holding era. In 1965, Chiefs scout Lloyd Wells set his sights on Prairie View A&M receiver and family friend Otis Taylor. Unfortunately for Wells, while he was focusing on another prospect at Tennessee State, the Cowboys pounced by visiting the Prairie View A&M campus and whisking Taylor and offensive tackle Seth Cartwright off to Dallas for Thanksgiving.[2][5] Taylor said:[6]
"[The Cowboys reps] told me they wanted me and [Cartwright] was just along for the ride. That made me mad. Seth and I were real close and I felt he could make it to the pros. So I said to myself 'This was no place for me.'"
Cartwright commented:[7]
"The guys from Dallas game us some dough to enjoy ourselves with, and we did until we found out we were being kept virtual prisoners. We couldn't call out of our room without our phones being tapped." "Then we were moved to other hotels so that the guy from Kansas City (Hunt) couldn't get in touch with Otis. Then finally arranged for us to leave the hotel at 2 in the morning after being there three days."
Chiefs Director of Pro Personnel Don Klosterman attempted to call Taylor's dorm but received no answer. Assuming he had been kidnapped, Klosterman ordered Wells to go to Houston to find him. With the help of Taylor's friends and family, they discovered he and Cartwright were at a Holiday Inn in Richardson, where Young and stockbroker Wallace Reed were overseeing them.[2][3] Wells tried to enter the hotel but was obviously denied by Cowboys representatives. Wells tried again by posing as a photographer for Jet magazine seeking a photo op with Taylor, which worked and he was able to speak with Taylor. However, the receiver could not leave his room due to security.[5] Later in the evening, while strategizing with Klosterman, Wells noticed Reed had fallen asleep after drinking too many cocktails.[2] At 2 AM, Wells was spotted by security and escaped to a nightclub, where he was followed by the guards; after a quick "date" with a waitress to convince them to let him go, he returned to the hotel.[5] A livid Wells called out to Taylor while he was looking out his room window: "You don't come with me right now, I am going to lose my motherfuckin' job. Goddamn you!—after all the pussy I done got with you! Now get down here, and let's fly to Kansas City, there's a red T-bird waiting for you." The T-bird in question was a Ford Thunderbird, a car that Taylor wanted and the Chiefs had purchased for him.[3] The players took their jackets and sneaked out of their room by tying their bed sheets to form a rope and slipping out of the window.[3][8] As dawn neared, they made a dash for the airport. The trio first went to Dallas Love Field, but Wells saw two suspicious men loitering in the terminal and decided to make a detour to Fort Worth, from where they flew to Kansas City.[2] Taylor signed a contract with the Chiefs a day later and drove back to Texas in his new Thunderbird;[2] he went on to become one of the most decorated receivers in team history.[6] Cartwright's demands were too much for the Chiefs, but he was eventually on an AFL roster of his own as he signed with the Jets.[5] Two years later, they were reunited when Cartwright was traded to Kansas City.[9] "The intrigue was marvelous," Hunt stated. "The public loved it. I loved it."[10] In a 1987 column, Howard Cosell wrote, "It was bigger than a Brinks job. It made Jessie James come off like a rank amateur. There wasn't a lawman anywhere who could stop it."[8]
The Raiders
In Oakland, Davis and Raiders scout Ron Wolf concocted a plan to stop the operation. The two compiled the names and addresses of every babysitter and, posing as the NFL, organized a fake meeting at a motel in Portland. Scheduled to be held on Draft Day at 5 PM, they ordered all babysitters to attend.[2] A number of players and babysitters fell for the deception and went to their respective airports, but Cowboys personnel director Gil Brandt was tipped off by an Oregon player and was able to halt all movement. While the identity of the tip is unknown, Brandt assumed it was either Mel Renfro or Dave Wilcox, both future NFL players.[2] In 2009, Davis commented, "I couldn't think of something like that. I'll put it on Ron." On the other side, Brandt offered praise to Davis and said, "Al was pretty good. He was really our only competition."[2] Although his ruse blew up, Davis had one dramatic victory that spanned literally the entire nation. In the 1965 draft, the Raiders planned to select Memphis State tackle Harry Schuh. The Rams also wanted him, so the NFL assigned 1949 Heisman Trophy winner and ex-Lion Leon Hart as his babysitter. Recognizing this threat, the Raiders quickly flew Schuh from Jackson, Mississippi to New Orleans to pick up his wife and child before taking them to Las Vegas. Raiders backfield coach John Rauch checked them into the Riviera hotel under fake names; Raunch's wife Jane was also present to help.[12] In Detroit, Hart was attending a Notre Dame alumni party when he decided to leave early. Unaware of Schuh's departure, he went to Memphis to pick him up; as part of his itinerary, he was going to take the lineman to Miami for a Thanksgiving vacation. Upon arriving in the city, Schuh's coach told Hart he had gone home with his friends and was returning later in the day. At this moment, Hart recalled the Raiders were going to draft him and realized what was really happening.[13] After asking the Cardinals to interrogate a Memphis State player they had recently signed, Hart was told of Schuh's whereabouts and went to New Orleans. There, he discovered the Schuhs were in Vegas as Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hudson, following a man named Walker, and were set to go to Disneyland and San Francisco afterward. Due to weather issues, Hart could not fly to Nevada, so he tasked Pool with taking over the operation.[13] Catching wind of the situation, the NFL filed a missing persons report and informed Schuh's family in New Jersey. The Rams sent some representatives to Disneyland, while Pool and his entourage went to Vegas. They traced Schuh to the Riviera and spotted him at a blackjack table, where they told him to meet with them later. Wolf quickly took him away and hid him in a closet; a janitor nearly locked the lineman inside until Wolf paid him off with $50.[12] "We had to pull an escapade," Davis said. "We had to get him out of the hotel."[2] Wolf began wandering around the hotel, acting as a diversion as Rams personnel watched on.[14] Maury Schleicher, a former player and Raiders scout from Schuh's hometown, went into the hotel from the back, where he extracted Schuh.[2][12][15] Upon realizing his client was gone, Pool sent a telegram to Reeves: "Boo hoo, I lost my Schuh."[2][3] Schleicher and Schuh got into a taxi and rode around Vegas for four hours. After a phone conversation with Davis, they escaped to Los Angeles and flew to Hawaii. Mrs. Schuh stayed behind in Vegas to serve as a decoy, moving between hotels to throw the Rams off. Meanwhile, the Rams tried to contact Schuh by posing as Wolf, but Wolf intercepted each call.[12] Word got out of Schuh buying two tickets to LA, so Pool also went there, only to find out the two tickets were really being used by Mrs. Schuh and her child.[15] In Waikiki, Schuh was formally drafted and signed his contract to become a Raider.[12][14] Hart eventually arrived in Vegas and signed a warrant for Schuh, but police couldn't find him. At a local car dealership, he learned a red Ford Mustang had been rented out by a "Walker" and was at an LA airport. Remembering the schedule, Hart went to San Francisco and began asking locals if they had seen a "big guy" in town; instead of Schuh, they gave him players from the Colts, who were preparing to play the 49ers that weekend.[13] Desperate, Hart went to the Top of the Mark penthouse bar and waited for Schuh; as Hart explained, "Everybody in San Francisco ends up there sooner or later." When his player did not appear, he gave up his search and returned to Detroit.[13] Schuh commented on Davis: "He'd take his hands, run 'em through his hair, suck air through his teeth, and he'd say, 'Let me just say this, young man. Anything good in this life is worth cheating for.'"[3]
Demise
After three years, Operation Hand-Holding was shut down in 1967 as the NFL and AFL agreed to merger plans and the creation of a common draft. "Subterfuge in the personnel process began to grow to 007 levels, although in actual follow-through it sometimes looked like the fumble and bumble of The Pink Panther," Bob Gretz wrote.[1] "In this element that this battle was being conducted, there really were no rules," Michael MacCambridge said. "The rules were whoever signs the most good players, well-known players wins."[17]
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