Word: grandstand
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...Grandstand quarterbacking is supposed to be a Constitutional right-like eating Mem's apple pie or rooting for the Dodgers. If so, perhaps the Constitution should be amended...
Sitting behind me Saturday was a particularly raneous grandstand quarterback. He knew little about the rules of football and still loss about the Harvard team he was presumably rooting for. But that didn't stop him from criticizing both players and coaches freely...
...field below, a good Harvard team, still badly shorthanded because of injuries, was putting up a game fight against a superb Cornell squad. But the grandstand quarterback didn't see it that way. First he started working over the coaches, as if he expected Art Valpey to rush off the bench and single-handedly half the Big Red tide. But when the Crimson made a good gain on a tricky play, the coach never got credit for devising the play and teaching the team how to execute...
...even more irksome was the criticism of the players-and it was hero that the grandstand quarterback displayed himself in all his ignorance. The particular member of the species who was behind mo reached two major conclusions during the course of the game, and he was not averse to letting others know about them. First, he thought that the Harvard quarterbacks should call more end runs. Second, he thought that Harvard should use fewer passes...
Alumni have accounted for end zone seats in the concrete stands, while more than enough mail orders have been received to sell out the steel grandstand. Varsity Club men account for remaining Harvard side pasteboards...