[1] Maule joined the NFL's Los Angeles Rams front office as a publicity director, where he worked with Pro Football Hall of Famers Pete Rozelle and Tex Schramm.
[2] When the upstart American Football League (AFL) began play in 1960, Maule did not conceal his loyalty to, nor his preference for, Rozelle and the NFL.
For example, in a September 30, 1968 SI piece entitled The Young Generals (referenced below), supposedly about Pro Football's best young quarterbacks, he praised such statistically average NFL signal-callers as Gary Cuozzo, Randy Johnson and Kent Nix, and never even mentioned future Hall of Fame AFL quarterbacks Bob Griese, Daryle Lamonica, or Joe Namath.
During the broadcast of the AFL's New York Jets' defeat of the NFL champion Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, announcer Curt Gowdy asked (off-air): "I wonder if that [S.O.B.]
"[3] The line was widely quoted by subsequent writers, including Ali's biographer Thomas Hauser.