Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Politics may be the very life of the American system as well as the nation's greatest spectator sport. But a time does come when the voter feels glazed, like a football fan who has watched New Year's Day bowl games played out across the time zones. The amount of money spent, the emotion and brain power diverted from the business of governing, make two reforms imperative. Campaign spending must be curbed or equalized, to end the scandalous situation in which, more and more often, political office in the U.S. is a rich man's prize...
DARTMOUTH-CORNELL: Obviously, Dartmouth is going to win, and I'm not going to be stupid enough to predict otherwise. And being in Ithaca isn't going to be the disadvantage one might expect since Jim Buckley, Senator Jim Buckley, who is reportedly a big fan of Bob Blackman because of his ability to win by such a large margin, will be in Ithaca to cheer the Indians and pick up pointers from Blackman. While Dartmouth is fussing about its national statistics, Ed Marinaro will be doing the same. He may have real trouble with the Dartmouth defense and thus...
...goes it on a Saturday afternoon in Princeton when you're a Princeton fan and you're losing to Harvard-and losing badly-in football...
Consider, for a moment, the poor Princeton fan. One of the ones with the black and orange "Beat Yale" pins stuck in his hat at Saturday's game. No one even bothered to manufacture any orange black and orange "Beat Harvard" pins. But I'll bet the alums sent out an order Monday for 5000 "Beat Cornell" pins since a win over Cornell on Harvard-Yale weekend will enable the Tigers to finish over 500 in the league...
After the final whistle has blown, when the stadium is bleak in its emptiness, the football fan returns home, weary but exhilarated from his vicarious participation in "the game." And then, in the blah hours of the early morning, he will lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend...