Word: helmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cuccia and the Multiflex were obviously made for each other. The coach had Cuccia taking snaps in the shotgun, then throwing or running. Grizzled press box veterans watched for a while, then began to realize that Cuccia was running single wing--a remnant of football's leather helmet days resurrected for the Multiflex...
...where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...
...offensive line of the Columbus High football team stood shoulder to shoulder with Maffei in the narrow, winding street. Their smooth, helmet-like coifs bobbed several inches above the crowd as they jousted playfully. The young bucks and the slightly older working men and women who stood behind them cared little about Carter's dedication to Social Security or Medicare. In fact, when the presidential entourage emerged into the mid-day sunshine it was Ted Kennedy and not the candidate who received the warmest reception. The most favorite of all New England sons provoked a particularly loud round of cheering...
...Metropolitan's show, imported after a successful five-month run at the British Museum, offers us a different sort of Viking: the monster chez lui, a more conscientious and stolid fellow, the rude ancestor of the modern Volvo executive. He does not even have a horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against...
...drill-field discipline, Bryant is not John Wayne with a whistle, a link to vague frontier tenets presumed lost. The most closely scrutinized coach in America, he could not get away with being a bagman for postadolescent jocks even if he tried. Nor is he a helmet-bashing maniac who views Saturday afternoons in the stadium as the moral equivalent of Dday. He is, at times, treated a bit too royally by those who vest football with more importance than it deserves. But he is also scorned too savagely by those who do not understand that the game...