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...Because, make no mistake, the man was acting. Unlike his braying, spluttering character, O'Connor was born in the Bronx but his real voice was no Bronx cheer; he was soft-spoken and thoughtful and said that he never heard Archie Bunkerisms growing up in his well-off childhood home. An accomplished journeyman stage and film actor, O'Connor made Archie into a character - dry and operatic, hateful and touching - where a cartoon would have sufficed. It would have been easy to make Archie a caricature (and he was one) or a straw man (he was that too). It would...
...citizens of Baltimore. He's theirs. Always was, for 21 years. It's an anomaly in today's sporting culture that a player could span his entire Hall of Fame career in one city. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens - all traveling salesmen by comparison. We cheer uniforms, not players (who can keep track?) these days, but Ripken made it easy to be an Orioles...
...feeling of being railroaded. I'll honor my father when I feel like honoring my father, thank you, not when some society-wide convention tells me I should. It's a little like that incessant and annoying music at professional basketball games, where we're supposed to cheer when the music tells us to cheer, not when the home team does something worth cheering about...
...across the center. But you ask them where they went to school, and they'll respond with pride. And, if there is any sporting championship in which Harvard is competing, they cheer for their school with the more vigor than most...
...Football fever soars to its mysterious heights with every first autumn chill and the advent of an opening game," raved a Crimson editorial in 1947. Every fall between 1947 and 1950 saw hundreds of students trooping out to the stadium to cheer on the varsity squad. And for the class of 1951, every fall of those four years saw the same disappointment...