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...Buffalo's Only Justification (O.J.) for existence broke the NFL record rushing in one season on Sunday against the hapless Jets. Simpson smashed Jimmy Brown's old standard and gained over 2000 yards for the season. He also break the banks in upstate New York when salary re-negotiation time around...
...Simpson bulldozed his way through the snow for 198 yards and crashed the 2,000-yard barrier, shattering a spate of National Football League records and powering the Buffalo Bills to a 34-14 victory over the New York Jets yesterday. Simpson carried 34 times against the helpless Jets, giving him a season total of 332 carries. Both his total yardage and total carries bettered records by Cleveland's former star fullback, Jim Brown...
...brutally forced them into a tenuous life on the edge of existence. To pay the frightful rents and skyrocketing taxes, peasants were forced to borrow from their landlords--at interest rates ranging from 100 to 3650 per cent. The peasant had to sell everything he owned--his water buffalo, old heirlooms, sometimes even his children--to keep his head above water. He hitched his wife and children to his plow to replace the water buffalo, but still his debts continued to mount. And if he missed a payment on his taxes or loans, he was tossed into a colonial jail...
...Swedes. The teams have also turned to the raw and the overripe. N.H.L. rosters this year contain 60 rookies, some of them getting $100,000 or more. At the other end of the age scale, Tim Horton, 43, has been lured out of retirement to steady a young Buffalo Sabres defense. So has Gordie Howe, 45, the legendary Detroit Red Wings star, who could not resist a big contract from the W.H.A. Houston Aeros to form the only father-son trio in hockey with his sons Marty and Mark...
Signs of Life. In some cities, hockey shows healthy life signs. The game has caught on in Atlanta, where thousands of fans follow the expansion Flames, a young team that is displaying play-off potential in the Western Division of the N.H.L. The Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers, also expansion teams, are doing well. Ironically, the team that has benefited most from expansion is the one that needed help the least-the Montreal Canadiens. Under the direction of General Manager Sam Pollock, the Canadiens have exploited expansion to replenish their bench and keep their dynasty in power. Unlike Washington Redskins...