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...freebies were handed out to Shark fans for the team's first two home games. A whopping 100,000 went to Bell spectators. "The second game was on TV," explained Bell Executive Vice President Barry Leib shortly before his 48-hour suspension by League Founder-Commissioner Gary Davidson. "How would it have looked if no one was there...
...arrival of the W.F.L., just eleven months after it was first proposed, can be credited to Gary Davidson, a handsome lawyer who has made a career out of playing David to the Goliath establishments of sport. Before organizing the W.F.L., he put together the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association. By creating 34 new teams in three major sports in the past eight years, Davidson has become an acknowledged master builder in a field that includes such lusty franchise spawners as Football and Tennis Tycoon Lamar Hunt...
Cold Calculation. Unlike Texas Millionaire Hunt, Davidson has not had a family fortune to back his enterprises. What the son of a poor Montana farmer has lacked in money, though, he has more than made up in flair, shrewd business sense and sheer moxie. He set the tone for his climb to fortune eight years ago when he was running a modest law office in Southern California. "If people came in my office with money," Davidson says, "I took their cases...
When a couple of friends who owned a basketball team came to him in 1966 with the idea of starting a new league, he quickly dropped his tax cases to barnstorm the country looking for prospective owners. In the hunt, Davidson coupled his penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen...
...also audacious. Almost before he had completed organization of the A.B.A., Davidson turned his attention to hockey. Though he had never seen a hockey game in his life, he went to work rounding up owners for a new twelve-team league. When the Miami franchise started to buckle, he negotiated a move to Philadelphia in less than an hour. In Canada he managed to stop a revolt among owners angered by his frequently abrasive negotiating style. "Gary has a great creative imagination," says an associate, "but tact is not his cup of tea." Davidson disagrees. "The Canadian owners told...