Word: elway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Play of the Big Game has become legend on the West Coast. It was greeted with jubilation in Berkeley, which had gone into the game 13-point underdogs to the John Elway-led Cardinals. Prominently displayed on California chests this summer were T-shirts diagraming the entire miracle run. The loss brought shock and dismay to the Stanford fans, who immediately began slotting revenge...
...mention that there are ten more major league teams now than in 1962, and therefore, in a way, 250 bush leaguers at large. Certainly baseball no longer enjoys first call on the country's best athletes. Today, Flatbush's Duke Snider, like Stanford's John Elway, might have been persuaded to toss a football...
...given his choice, at least not right away. Despite Elway's expressed desire to play on the West Coast, Baltimore stubbornly did not trade the pick to San Diego, Seattle or the Los Angeles Raiders. "I don't want to be a jerk or anything," Elway told Colts Coach Frank Kush, "but we [meaning Elway, his agent Marvin Demoff and his father Jack, the head football coach at San Jose State] have been telling you for three months I'm not going to play in Baltimore." Elway then called a press conference to declare, ''Right...
...this year in the Supreme Court, which decided that he would have to defend himself against charges stemming from a sideline assault case brought by a former punter at Arizona State. That incident four seasons ago ended Rush's prosperous 22-year college coaching career. Probably Elway did not crave Kush's style of discipline...
Last week the Colts finally struck a deal with the Denver Broncos: two No. 1 draft choices plus a spare quarterback for the rights to Elway, who signed instantly, for $5 million over five years, with Denver, as close as he could get to the West Coast. The affair ended the way all N.F.L. episodes conclude lately, with Raiders Operator Al Davis claiming a league conspiracy had prevented him from trading for the Elway pick. One thing, though. The sympathy ordinarily felt toward the livestock seemed to go off somewhere else too. No matter how good they are, workaday towns...