Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between his white football shoes and natty street clothes, Joe Namath, 25, swinging quarterback of the New York Jets pro-football team, cuts a striking figure. Come fall, he will be positively dazzling. Seems a New York furrier and Jets fan has whipped up a $5,000 double-breasted mink coat for sale to the passer. His left knee hurts too much for play these days, but he managed to sweat out the final fitting in 85° temperature at the Jets training field...
...batter wears gloves while all but one of the fielders are barehanded, 2) runs are scored in dozens or even hundreds, 3) it takes 20 outs to end one "innings," and 4) the whole thing can last as long as six days-counting tea breaks. What baseball fan could be expected to comprehend a game in which the batter hits the ball on the bounce, runs only if he chooses to, and is considered unrefined if he swings for the fences...
...Pattison, 39, used to be a baseball fan-until last week, when he traveled all the way from Vancouver to Houston to attend the 39th annual All-Star game "because I wanted to see the best hitters in baseball." Pattison in stead saw "the biggest bore of my life": a game in which both teams, between them, collected only eight hits and struck out 20 times. The only score came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home...
...lashes her listeners ?in her words?"to the bone, for deepness." "Aretha's music makes you sweaty, gives you a chill, makes you want to stomp your feet," says Bobby Taylor, leader of a soul group called Bobby and the Vancouvers. More simply, a 19-year-old Chicago fan named Lorraine Williams explains: "If Aretha says it, then it's important...
...that he knew bullfights were fixed, just like prizefights, Willie figured he was onto a good thing. The next week he was in the stands when Miguelin tackled a big bull with an unpronounceable name-and he laid some fan at ringside 5½ to 7½ that unpronounceable would take a dive. Willie collected when a fan ran out, pulled the bull's tail, and the beast just stood there looking silly. Miguelin polished the bull off as fast as he could and headed for the exit, ducking shrapnel from the stands...