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...lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend to throw two touchdown passes for the Oakland Raiders . . . Champ Clark
What do Y. A. Tittle, Bart Starr, Joe Willie Namath, Fran Tarkenton, Babe Parilli, George Blanda and Charlie Conerly all have in common? They all are, or were, masterly pro quarterbacks...
...Dallas Texans: the American Football League championship, beating the defending champion Houston Oilers, 20-17, in the longest pro game in history. Ahead 17-0 at half time, Dallas was tied in the second half, narrowly escaped defeat in the regulation four quarters when Oiler Quarterback George Blanda, trying to pass to a wide-open receiver, hit himself on the helmet with the football. At the start of a sudden-death overtime, Texan Captain Abner Haynes unthinkingly elected to kick off, and into the wind at that. But the Dallas defense held, and Tommy Brooker eventually ended...
...optimists in the three-year-old American Football League, dreams sometimes get in the way of reality. "The two top teams in this league," boasts Houston Quarterback George Blanda, "are strong enough to take on anybody in the Nation al Football League, except maybe the Green Bay Packers." Most A.F.L. coaches admit that this is baloney. "Lord, they'd all massacre us," says Denver's Jack Faulkner. But there is one contest in which the fledgling pro league is a match for its older rival : bidding for the services of this year's graduating college stars. Last...
...quarterback Jackie Lee completed 27 out of 41 passes for 457 yards; Charlie Hennigan of Houston caught 13 aerials for 232 yards; Garron ran back a kickoff 33 yards; Boston seemingly iced the game by going ahead 31 to 28 with 50 seconds to play; and Houston's George Blanda tied the game with a field goal as time...