Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Denver and Dallas, is shouted antiphonally from towering stadium tiers: It is the best of times! It is the best of times! It is the season for bumper stickers and bunting and bragging in bars, for celebration and civic pride. Time for whimsy and WE'RE NO.l!, for good cheer and bad bets. It is a time warp, where the young dream of growing up and the old remember youth, and in the delirious identification with a winning football team, neither fantasy nor reminiscence seems foolish. The game becomes a bond strong enough to unite, however temporarily, the disparate elements...
...Denver Broncos and their loyal, long-suffering fans. The Broncos had been the door mat of pro football ?13 straight years before they fashioned a winning season. But with more true grit than could be found in the poorest prospector's pan, Denver fans turned out to cheer their team. The Broncos have sold out every home game played in the '70s, and every year the list of masochists ordering season tickets grew by the thousands. This year, the faithful finally struck the mother lode, division title, American Conference championship, a berth in the Super Bowl...
...contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them followed him into a parking lot, shot and killed him, and wounded two companions...
...Crimson hoopsters, still recovering from too much New Year's cheer, dropped games to Penn and Princeton last weekend, lowering their record to 3-9 overall (1-2 in the Ivies...
Some Christmas cheer for Bert Lance. First, Saudi businessman Ghaith Pharaon said he would pay $20 a share (more than 33% above the going rate) for 120,000 shares of the former Budget Director's stock in the National Bank of Georgia. The $2.4 million deal should leave a fat profit (a third of a million or so) in Lance's stocking. Then there was a gift from Wife LaBelle: a family portrait by Atlanta Artist Comer Jennings. LaBelle especially liked how Jennings painted her diamond pendant-the "broken heart," as she calls it, that Bert gave...