Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside, the place has an intoxicating effect. After you emerge from a short concrete tunnel, the lush green turf immediately dazzles the eye. Not only does it provide a beautiful natural stage for the players, but it also has a rich smell that can make fans feel as if they are on the field. With the limited number of seats packed tightly around the field, even a bleacher fan can sense an intimacy with the game...
...knowledgeable fan watches to see if Bernieri is reading the B.U. crossblock properly while the usual dolt in the stands is silently or verbally coercing Kubacki to "heave it long." The wide receiver is somehow above the nitty-gritty of the game. His position is one of free form and imagination in a game of percentages and execution by form. Perhaps for these reasons, the wide receiver stands apart in the game and their personalities seem to follow in the same vein of uniqueness...
Game Fixture. The archetype of the Alabama fan-indeed of all football-seized Southerners-is Birmingham Hardware Distributor Tony Brandino, who never attended the university. Since 1954 he has made it to 239 Crimson Tide games in a row, traveling as far as California and forgoing, among other things, a free trip to Switzerland and the mourning period for his mother-in-law. Brandino recalls: "The first time I ever heard about football, I was nine years old and it was a radio broadcast of the 1925 Rose Bowl-Alabama v. Washington. I've been hooked since." Brandino...
...overalls, T shirts and baseball caps in the crowd. Then the stranger in town stepped up onto the platform erected temporarily on the edge of the track, approached the microphone, and desperately tried to create an instant rapport with his audience. "I'm more of a stock-car fan today than I was yesterday," shouted Senator Robert Dole, the Republican vice-presidential nominee and Jerry Ford's vote-hunting emissary to alien lands...
...turn to address the crowd. Declaring that he had been a stock-car fan for 25 years, Carter promised that if he was elected President the drivers would be invited to the White House. Standing ten feet away, Dole remarked to anyone within earshot: "It's going to be a busy place...