Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The lowly Detroit Lions of 1963 may outlive Green Bay, enshrined as they are in Plimpton's humorous prose. Plimpton tried out for the team with disastrous results, but his memoir of pro football is a long gainer for the fan and the nonfan as well...
PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The lowly Detroit Lions of 1963 may outlive proud Green Bay, enshrined as they are in Plimpton's elegant and humorous prose. Plimpton tried out for the team with disastrous results, but his memoir of pro football is a long gainer for the fan and the nonfan as well...
...Right You Are If You Say You Are-Obscurely" [Dec. 30] brought to mind one of my favorite quotes, Oscar Wilde's observation in Lady Windermere's Fan, that "nowadays to be intelligible is to be found...
Whom does a New York sports fan root for these days? The pro-football Giants have turned into dwarfs (see col. 2), and the Jets are strictly subsonic. The Knicks are to pro basketball what Mrs. Miller is to soul music. Baseball's onceproud Yankees are a burnt-out case: they finished tenth last year. And the Mets wound up ninth only because they play in another league with the even worse Chicago Cubs...
There once was a pro football coach who quit his job because every time the players went into a huddle, he thought they were plotting against him. Today's coaches don't worry about the players. It's the fans-those rabid folks who shell out up to $42 apiece for a season ticket-that they're terrified of. After the Denver Broncos lost their first two games this season, one enraged fan poured a bucketful of garbage over Coach Mac Speedie's head as he ran for the locker room. And in Detroit last...