Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DeMars's biggest fan is his mother. She hasn't missed a football game yet and she's the one who first encouraged him into sports by taking him to local games every weekend in Providence...
...League does, however, excel in a sport that, for some unknown reason, has not generated the fan interest and support that mediocre football has always enjoyed...
...Tiriac serve was out-only after Smith had whipped the return past the Rumanian. The calls became so bad that the referee, Enrique Morea of Argentina, took the unprecedented step of expelling one of the linesmen. He would probably have liked to include most of the stadium. The fans repeatedly ignored pleas for "liniste" (silence), and cheered wildly at every American mistake. When the small American section offered up cheers, the rest of the gallery had the temerity to show indignation; one Rumanian fan shouted, "Quiet! It's not a baseball game...
BACK in the Stone Age of professional football, when some players did not even wear helmets, Marsh Clark was already a committed and suffering fan (his team was the Redskins). Then, as the "teeniest end in the conference," he chased tosses from his prep school quarterback on that legendary pattern, "the good old 21." That play, recalls Clark, "consisted of the single-wing quarterback releasing a pass in my general direction, then-being a good Christian gentleman-getting down on his knees to say a prayer." God apparently did not listen to quarterbacks' prayers in those days, and Clark...
...drawl. Namath's lazy inflections still suggest that his forebears fought under the tattered banners of Beauregard and Breckinridge. But as every true fan knows, Namath was born and raised in the Pennsylvania steel town of Beaver Falls (pop. 14,404), the youngest of four sons of a Hungarian-born steel puddler. Joe is sincere about his deep family ties. In his autobiography, / Can't Wait Until Tomorrow...'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day (written in collaboration with Writer-Sportscaster Dick Schaap), Namath proudly observes: "When I was growing up, my mother was a maid...