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They have been eager to make a legend of him since he was at Notre Dame, where he put together a rout of improbable comebacks by coming off the bench, and a national championship in 1977 when, by the third game, he was finally the starter to stay. If his rise has been a little jerky to now (after all, a man must keep returning to the bench in order to vault from it again), there is no stopping the legend this time. The sportswriters wonder if he had been confident before the game, if he knew he was going...
Montana's enthusiasm for all the comeback lore is restrained, which helps explain why he talks so little about those years. He spent too much of the games on the bench. But even there his self-assurance showed, and it could have rankled Devine or his assistants. Teammates may see more virtue in his kind of sanguine temperament than college coaching staffs do. Whether shooting baskets in the intramural "Bookstore Classic," or pool at Corby's or Frisbees at beer cans in the hallway hockey games, Montana was a natural competitor, and the players knew it. His jokes...
...That pass was a little off the mark," he deadpanned after finally getting into the Purdue game the championship year and then throwing his first pass out of the stadium. "The coach is going to really think I'm a jerk." Joe had sat on the bench in that game watching first Rusty Lisch, then Gary Forystek, then Lisch again. When Montana at last came on in the fourth quarter, the Boilermakers led 24-14. From that first miss, he went on to complete nine of 13 for 154 yds. and a 31-24 victory. "The team responded...
...meticulous and efficient. Says a former law clerk: "He spent a lot of time streamlining the language in his opinions, to get rid of the 'thats' and 'whiches' and anything else superfluous." Clark, a family man with five children, loves the rural life. Preferring the bench to politics, he declined to join Reagan's presidential campaign team and turned down key jobs at Agriculture and the CIA before agreeing to serve as Haig's deputy...
...brightest and most imaginative graphics and sound effects in the industry are Intellivision's. The most rousing sight in home video is the between-innings sequence of Intellivision's Baseball, in which, to the sound of cheers, one team trots in to the bench and the other sprints out to the field. The game soon becomes tedious, however, partly because of awkward hand controls (which hamper a good skiing cartridge) and partly because not enough of baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette...