Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the stuff of legends, so no one really knows how young Paul William Bryant fared against that carny bear in Fordyce, Ark. Some say he lasted the $5 limit, at a dollar per minute, and collected his money; others insist that the scrawny old beast tossed the local boy off the stage of the Lyric Theater in short order. Bryant claims he has the scars to prove he was there, but the only thing that really matters is that the episode gave the boy a nickname to grow into-Bear. A perfect name for 50 years of football...
Bryant used to be dogged by horror stories about his tough methods, but he has mellowed considerably, and the mountains gladly come to Muhammad. Says Offensive Tackle Jim Bunch: "Every boy who plays high school football wonders what it would be like to play for Coach Bryant and wishes that he could. It doesn't matter where you grow up, Coach Bryant is the standard everyone wants to measure himself...
...proven winner and self-made millionaire with investments in a dozen enterprises, Bryant can comfortably insist that he is just a simple country boy who got lucky. His legacy belies that: 39 former Bryant players and assistants have become head coaches in college or the pros, among them the Houston Oilers' Bum Phillips, Maryland's Jerry Claiborne and the Washington Redskins' Jack Pardee. A total of 47 players have gone on to the pros, including such stars as Lee Roy Jordan, Joe Namath and Ken Stabler...
...successful Manhattan lawyer, McEnroe played plenty of tennis as a boy, but he was not raised in the kind of hothouse, year-round pressure to succeed that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
...Muppet Show opens, always, with a knock at a dressing-room door. Scooter, the company's errand boy, sticks his head inside to announce curtain time. He is a human boy caricatured, and thus is a representative of one of the show's three main species. Human Muppets are featured players: Floyd, the supremely groovy guitarist; Janice, his girlfriend; Zoot, the blue-faced sax player who has seen it all; Animal, the out-of-control drummer who must be chained to the wall; Crazy Harry, the special-effects man who is fond of explosions; the incomprehensible and meatball-brained Swedish...