Word: flatley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year N.F.L. veteran at age 65. Pleading poverty, the owners refused. "There are at least three, maybe five teams in this league, which cannot absorb that cost and stay anywhere near healthy," said Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. The athletes were not convinced. Said Minnesota Vikings End Paul Flatley: "We put fans in the stands, risking personal injury, so why shouldn't we get a proportion of the profits...
...days, delights in locker-room oratory, and hates anything dull, especially dull football. He has always had a knack for developing topnotch passers and receivers-"probably," cracks Navy Coach Bill Elias, "because his ancestors got practice catching figs that fell out of trees." At Northwestern, Ara produced Flanker Paul Flatley (now with the Minnesota Vikings) and Quarterback Tommy Myers (Pittsburgh Steelers); at Notre Dame in 1964, it was Quarterback Huarte and End Jack Snow (Los Angeles Rams). After Huarte and Snow graduated in 1965, Parseghian had to settle for grind-it-out ground attack; although the Irish lost only...
After threatening for the whole period, Holy Cross finally managed to score on a wobbly 34-yard pass from quarterback Brian Flatley to fullback Ken Kluxen...
...when that failed to daunt Myers, Coach Woody Hayes ordered his defense to fan back and double-team Northwestern's receivers. Myers still completed 18 of 30 passes, and the Wildcats, behind 14-0 in the first quarter, roared back to win, 18-14. Says Halfback Paul Flatley, who caught a Myers pass for the first Northwestern touchdown against Ohio State: "I was covered by three guys, and he threw it right into my hands-right up in front of my face-and I was in the end zone." "That," sighs Parseghian, "is a God-given gift...