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...Minnesota Vikings and Moseley. "That's why I was glad to see Moseley get the record," said Lou ("the Toe") Groza, the Cleveland Browns' famed footman, who also played tackle in the '50s. "At least Moseley looks like a football player. I was talking to George Blanda a while back, and he said, 'You know, if they would just tighten the immigration laws, we could still be kicking...
...those than anyone else); a farmer's son from Arkansas, a wrestler of carnival bears, "the other end" to Don Hutson at Alabama, the other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note the resemblance. "This must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted as the erosion of a dried-up riverbed. Under his Henry Higgins hat, the fire in his eyes...
...shirts, car dealerships and finance companies. It is shot-and-a-beer country, "Iron City" beer. Real boilers are made there as well, and so are quarterbacks. Western Pennsylvania has turned them out as stoic as Johnny Unitas, as extravagant as Joe Namath and as plain tough as George Blanda. Joe Montana Jr. favors all of them somewhat...
...evangelist of sports−Jock Lit's Billy Graham−Novak is the theologian. "Sports is. somehow, a religion," Novak declares, and happily settles down to his priestly duties. Words like "ritual," "legend" and "myth" labor in overtime. "Grace" takes on a double meaning. Old George Blanda is compared to Ulysses as he copes on "the green oval floor of the amphitheater" otherwise known as a football field. The "unforgettable stance and fluid swing" of Joe DiMaggio cannot be celebrated without cosmic theorizing. "Baseball is as close a liturgical enactment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth...
...early favorite has been track's answer to George Blanda, 43-year-old Jack Foster. Foster, a New Zelander, has a 2:11 marathon to his credit in the past, but with steep Heartbreak Hill looming and with the projected tropical temperatures, look to the runners from warmer climes--the South Americans and Africans...