Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other's conditions were unacceptable. Last week they finally came to terms in a hands-down victory for the National League...
...Harvard varsity football team decisively beaten by a mediocre Yale eleven. It was merely the last chapter in the history of Harvard's worst season, a season in which the Crimson compiled a record of eight losses and one win. The alumni, drawing upon their years of grandstand quarterbacking and television football, decided something was definitely wrong and further decided it was the coach...
...Jockey Eddie ("Heady Eddie") Arcaro, riding Brookmeade Stable's Blue Hills, was two lengths in front as the horses flashed past the grandstand for the second time in last week's $15,000 added Pimlico Cup. As he had at the end of many a 1½ mile event, Eddie pulled up. Eddie's error: the Pimlico Cup, longest of U.S. stake races, is 2½ miles. The awful truth dawned when the other horses sped by and one jockey cried derisively: "We have to go around again, buddy...
...break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...
...they did rush, he adopted variation number five, a pass to the receivers the halfbacks had to leave in order to rush the passer. Which just goes to show why coaches get gray, and why grandstand quarterbacks are so often wrong...