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...Bradshaw and basketball player Carol Greene, informed of the program last spring, decided to get the program off the ground for the present school year. They attended a VFY summer seminar at Springfield State College, and were later joined by co student directors Erin Callan and Mike Haas. The four initiated the program last fall by matching 15 Harvard students with Cambridge children...
After the Dolphins won the American Conference championship game, strafing Pittsburgh 45-28, Marino's final interview was with former Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw near midfield of the Orange Bowl at dusk. Passing quarterbacks passing in the twilight: a fairly irresistible image. Even when Marino's gums are not packed with tobacco, there is a flash of boy Bradshaw. "Just as nicely unpolished," says Rocky Bleier, another retiree, "the same weight problem, the same quick release, the same compulsion to throw into the coverages." Police dogs were escorting Marino to his white Corvette in the parking lot. "What a ride...
Think about it. What NFL, quarterback didn't wear 12? Think of Staunch, Namath, Griese, Bradshaw and Stabler. All future Hall of Famers, right...
What does all this mean? Well, maybe nothing. But maybe it's directly attributable to the NFL's mediocrity. Nobody ever talked about mediocrity or parity in the NFL when people were wearing number 12 on their backs. Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw met in the Super Bowl twice in four years. They weren't mediocre...
They won't see the number 12 being worn in Dallas, Miami, Pittsburgh or New York, either because the numbers will not likely be worn there again out of respect for the men who made them famous, or because the replacements for Messrs. Staubach, Bradshaw, Griese and Namath arrived on the scene while these greats were still occupying their jerseys...