Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miami. Sunday, Jan. 18, 1976. Time is running out at the Super Bowl as the Pittsburgh Steelers are plodding down the field. They have controlled the ball for eleven straight minutes and have slogged to the Dallas Cowboy 18-yd. line. Franco Harris rams off tackle yet again for two more yards, and Coach Chuck Noll sends in Kicker Roy Gerela. His field goal gives the Steelers victory-3-2. There is total silence in the Orange Bowl. Everyone is sound asleep...
...championship game of professional football annually produces more ennui than excitement. "Ball control" is the Super Bowl battle cry. Stay on the ground, eat up the clock, kick a couple of field goals, and take home the trophy. Super Bowl X may be more of the same monotonous brand of play. Dallas has a stifling defense-as both the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams found out in the playoffs. Pittsburgh (TIME cover, Dec. 8) merely has the best defense in the N.F.L...
...Dallas comes to the Orange Bowl this weekend with a zany offense that could turn the game into a wild, crowd-pleasing Shootout. Says Cowboys Assistant Coach Mike Ditka: "We have a chance to make the Super Bowl do for football what last fall's World Series did for baseball...
Coach Bill McCurdy figured before the meet that Northeastern would be "the toughest team we'd face," and the Huskies gave him all the toughness he expected as the lead seesawed back and for the throughout the contest. "It was more exciting than the Super Bowl," McCurdy exclaimed...
...becomes clear that the on-location reporter hates Omaha. Still, he betrays his excitement about the event he is covering: the 27th annual College World Series, where the presence of a Harvard baseball team is only slightly less likely than Restic's boys making it to the Hula Bowl. This was some show--travelling all the way out there to watch one of the greatest squads in Harvard history take on the behemoths from the West and the South and the big state universities. The reporter trotted off to the stadium early for Harvard's first game; the Ivy Leaguers...