Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual armchair aficionado. But for anyone who is familiar with the intricate levels of the professional game and likes to see it described, the book can offer an approximation of what it might have been like to spend a week learning football from the master himself. For the dedicated fan, player or even coach, this is the gospel according to Vince...
...There are those who claim that the fictional 007 became a worldwide glandular and intelligence hero because John Kennedy said that he was a James Bond fan. It is established history that after Lyndon Johnson had the Fort Worth barbecue wizard Walter Jetton at the White House, Jetton's vans, filled with succulent ribs, were summoned by hostesses all across the land...
...Fans are hardly captivated by that kind of competition. This year, for the first time in 192 consecutive home games, Boston Garden was not filled to capacity for a Bruins game. Overall league attendance last year was 7% less per game than six years ago. Even in Canada, hockey's heartland, interest appears to be on the decline. The nationally televised Saturday night game of the week slipped slightly in the ratings last year. As avid a fan as Canadian Senator Keith Davey, who concedes that "I always organize my life around hockey," admits that he went...
...father and I went to every Alabama game between 1964 and 1969(in 1970, I came to Radcliffe), and each incident of Saturday night's contest flashed me back to the days when football was my sustenance. I remembered writing worshipful fan letters to my favorite players, getting autographed photos from them, and plastering the 8-by-10 glossy treasures all over my bedroom wall. I remembered spending every Saturday afternoon with my father--a transistor radio between us--clinging to each play in "our boys'" life-or-death struggle with their weekly opponents...
After watching his team lose, 5-2, to Penn earlier this season, one St. Lawrence hockey fan described the game as one that St. Lawrence shouldn't have lost, and characterized the Penn squad as "not big, but scrappy, sort of like an over-zealous high school team. They just...