Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those two plays sum up Namath's vital assets on the field: a bazooka arm, a trigger-quick release and an almost supernatural ability to read complex defenses in a matter of microseconds. As Namath explained to TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark last week: "Unless I have some sort of mental lapse, I know what they're doing on the defense every time." In the instruction booklet he is now writing on the art of passing, he gives his older brothers much of the credit for his proficiency: "They taught me a single motion-simply throwing from your...
...year) while that determined disciplinarian, George Allen, sticks with disciplined Billy Kilmer at the Redskin helm. Unitas joined Namath on that stratospheric day in Baltimore to set an N.F.L. record for most passing yardage gained by two teams in one game (872). But he is now 39, and his arm has never fully regained its snap after a 1968 shoulder injury...
...behind Jim Plunkett (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), the former Heisman Trophy winner and 1971 American Conference Rookie of the Year. And in Pittsburgh, long-suffering Owner Art Rooney hopes that his Steelers can ride to the first league title in their 40-year history on the strong arm-and legs-of Terry Bradshaw (6 ft. 3 in., 214 Ibs.), who passed and ran for 634 yds. in the first three games of the season...
...other side of the coin, of course, landed in the opening game fiasco with UMass. The Amherst contingent ran roughshod over the Harvard defense for 367 yards total offense, and 210 of those yards came from Pennington's deadly right arm. The Crimson secondary could not blunt the UMass serials, and the Harvard zone was thoroughly ineffective. Pennington was irrepressible against Harvard, hitting the quick slant pattern at will. These thrusts into the belly of the zone accounted for over 150 yards alone. The rest of the Harvard defense had its share of lapses too, and the Crimson gave...
...purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems and only the all-embracing parental arm of white law can save blacks from themselves...