This week in TV Guide: August 22, 1959

Wo there's a little something for everyone this week, and there's no better place to begin than at the beginning!Saturday night football! The NFL preseason continues with a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Cardinals from Austin, Texas (9:00 p.m. CT, ABC). The appeal of this game would have been obvious: Bobby Layne, the star quarterback of the Steelers, was a native of Texas and an all-time great at the University of Texas (which, of course, is in Austin), while John David Crow, star halfback of the Cardinals, had won the Heisman Trophy at Texas A&M. In these days before widespread coverage of pro football, when Texas didn’t have any professional football of its own, I imagine the chance to see two of Texas’ greatest football stars live and in person made for quite an event in Austin.The Chicago Cardinals were nearing the end of their run as the Second Team in the Second City. Their history in Chicago dated back to 1920, but those years were spent mostly in futility…