Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does drugs. The Gatorade bit never got to me, anyway. I was born in Buffalo, so the Bills rate a look. But Buffalo is Buffalo--like the kid says in A Chorus Line, "Committing suicide in Buffalo is redundant." Cleveland misses out on the same criterion. The Browns are great, but they play in Cleveland...
...would never root for the Dallas Cowboys, although I will continue to support their cheerleaders. The Chicago Bears lost their chance when they filmed that Super Bowl Shuffle rap video. The Steelers have a quarterback named Bubby, which sounds a lot like what my great-aunt calls me while condescendingly pinching my cheek. Joe Gibbs is an evangelist, or so I understand. Guess that eliminates the Redskins. Their nickname is offensive to Native Americans anyway...
...before the winter-storm season descends on Prince William Sound. Six months after the Exxon Valdez ran hard aground on Bligh Reef and dumped 260,000 bbl. of crude oil into one of the most scenic bodies of water in the world, the ship's owner was declaring the great cleanup of 1989 complete...
...great place for a powwow -- but a superpower rendezvous? This week's meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze takes place not in Washington or New York City but Wyoming's remote Grand Teton National Park, a glorious setting and a logistical nightmare. At a modern-day campsite near Jackson Hole, advance men have hauled in satellite dishes, encryption machines, secure telephones, simultaneous-translation systems, crates of computers, hundreds of pounds of barbecue and a gift box of hand-tooled cowboy boots...
...players who are permitted to play on each of Japan's twelve major-league professional teams. Usually older, fading stars, the Yanks go to Japan confident that they know how to play baseball, only to be promptly disabused of that notion. Japanese managers are ironhanded disciplinarians who believe that great players are made, not born, and they try to reshape the foreign players into the Japanese mold. The Americans, intense individualists that they are, rebel. The Japanese conclude that the Americans are rude, lazy, and worse, lacking in the sacrosanct wa, the sense of team spirit that obliges the Japanese...