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...outburst in Denver's Mile High Stadium after the Super Bowl slot had been assured was the peaking of a fever that has raged this fall in the Rockies, leaving all of its victims colored a resonant orange. The team color has banished every other hue from the spectrum in Denver. T shirts, scarves, pins, sweaters, radios, coats, can openers, beer mugs, the hair on otherwise-sane heads and Christmas trees have been dyed to match the Broncos' Orange. Defensive End Lyle Alzado, star of the A.F.C.'s best defensive unit, an indefatigable worker in community projects and perhaps...
...Bard himself, anyone who chats briefly with Mr. Sadow will concur that there are few who can rival his encyclopedial knowledge of Crimson football lore. Sadow is such a devote of Harvard tradition that he disdains wearing a Crimson sweater, opting for what he describes as a bluer hue of red or magenta. Magenta was originally selected as the team color for Harvard on January 24, 1873 before Crimson was later adopted. By the way, the word "glowing" in Sadow's poem should be printed in "purple-crimson...
...latter part of 1967. His working conditions were ideal-no real deadlines, the freedom to travel wherever military transport would take him-and his timing was fortuitous. His year in the country coincided with some of the war's fiercest struggles-Tet and the battle for Hue, the siege at Khe Sanh and the Viet Cong's May 1968 Saigon offensive. Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere on the periphery of that total Viet...
This has got to be the easiest kind of story in the world to write, a color piece on a football game where every shade and hue was painted from the palette of one man, one artist...
...golden hue...