Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend to make the most diehard TV football fan feel as if he were caught at the bottom of a goal-line pileup. There, stutter-stepping and buttonhooking across the screen last week, were no fewer than 20 teams battling away for 30 eye-straining hours. By the time the last goal post had been torn down, a few basic truths had filtered through...
Though the Redskins are rated as 2½-point favorites, the nation's No. 1 fan, Richard Nixon, offered a safer prognostication. "I think it's an even...
...Coliseum emptied as the scoreboard flashed. "The Dolphins ARE super." One tired Miami fan staggered down the exit ramp with his shirt open and a half-finished drink in his hand. He muttered. "We can't lose, we can't lose." The Redskin lover next to him looked at his rolled up Super Bowl pennant and said nothing...
Among those in the Miami area who never got to see the Dolphins-Browns game at all was Richard Nixon, who was resting in his Key Biscayne retreat over the holiday weekend. Earlier in the week, the nation's No. 1 football fan had directed Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to ask N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle to lift the blackout on all playoff games that were sold out 48 hours in advance. Rozelle refused, explaining that easing of the TV ban could seriously reduce attendance at future games and might even turn pro football into a "studio show." Kleindienst countered...
...public, meanwhile, seemed interested only in devising new and more fun-filled ways of beating the TV ban. Some 400 fans who were watching the Dolphin game at the Miami Playboy Club (which has a space-age antenna) were interrupted by a police raid that closed the club for not having a license to operate before 5 p.m. on Sundays. Undaunted, diehard "Dol-fans" found a long extension cord and hauled a TV set outside, where they sat under a spreading sea grape tree, munching Bunny Burgers and watching the game while the traffic whizzed by on Biscayne Boulevard...