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According to the Republican, New York Jets' coach Weeb Ewbank is impressed with John's progress on the Orbits. He may bring Dockery up soon even if the Jet's defensive backfield remains sound...
...next month's "Super Bowl"-most likely the Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys-will be favored to win. But one fellow with a double-lens point of view swears that Kansas City, man for man, is "the best team in either league." That fellow is Weeb Ewbank, former coach of the N.F.L.'s Baltimore Colts and currently of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets-who last week had their own title hopes wrecked by the Chiefs...
Winner, 41, is in his first year as St. Louis' head coach, but he was to the manner born - so to speak - since he is the son-in-law of Weeb Ewbank, coach of the American Football League's New York Jets. Weeb is an accomplished coiner of aphorisms, which Charley is fond of quoting. His favorite: "Statistics are for losers...
...first thing Ewbank did was to take a hammer to the piggy bank that Werblin had filled as longtime boss of MCA-TV. Over the past three years, the Jets have laid out an estimated $2,000,000 in bonuses for promising college players - $400,000 of which went to Joe Willie Namath, 23, a gimpy-legged quarterback from the University of Alabama who did everything last week except match the A.F.L. record for most touchdown passes in one game...
...victory boosted the Jets' 1966 record to 2-0 and gave them undisputed possession of first place in the A.F.L.'s eastern division. Coach Ewbank, who is so preoccupied with football that he says he reads nothing but sport pages ("If I see Great Lakes Naval Training Station ranked among the top teams, I know we're at war"), has not yet quite forgiven Baltimore for firing him after he had led the Colts to two National Football League titles. He frankly admits to one grand ambition for the legionnaires. Now that the A.F.L. and N.F.L. have...