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...more profound than just sight lines. He could never lead. Some quarterbacks lift teams; he could hold up only his modest share. At lunch, if Theismann sat at one empty table and John Riggins at another, the fullback's would fill up but the quarterback's would not until Kicker Mark Moseley kindly joined his holder, and gentle Dave Butz did his 300-lb. best to take up the rest of the space...
This successful conspiracy between author and audience works best in the evanescent pages of a daily newspaper. Packed lead to kicker in book form, Buchwald's formula whimsy loses much of its punch. Verbal skits about Geraldine Ferraro, Michael Jackson, the President, home-computer miseries, the Pope and Cabbage Patch dolls now read like shots in the dark. Yet this and previous collections of the journalist's craft may one day enjoy new life. Buchwald's job is to repeat history as farce faster than one can say Karl Marx. To the patient reader, farce inevitably returns as nostalgia...
...Southeast Asia for Air America, a CIA-owned carrier, during the Viet Nam era. Since June, Hasenfus claimed, he had flown on ten missions, four from Aguacate, a contra base in Honduras, and six from Ilopango. He said he was paid $3,000 a month to work as a "kicker," the crewman who pushes cargo bales out of flying airplanes. Logbooks and other documents found in the wreckage of the C-123K showed that it had dropped some 130,000 lbs. of military supplies into Nicaragua...
...freshman place kicker quickly put an end to the woes that had plagued previous Crimson squads, not only solidifying Harvard’s kicking game, but also distinguishing himself as one of the top performers in school history. Schindel’s 13 field goals tied the school mark held by Charlie Brickley ’15 since 1912. Schindel was also one of eight Harvard players—and the only freshman—to be named first team...
Sophomore running back Clifton Dawson provided the Crimson with a matchless ground game, ultimately racking up multiple school records in the process. Kicker Matt Schindel stabilized a notoriously shoddy Crimson kicking game in just his first year on the team. Senior wide receiver Brian Edwards, on the heels of a breakout season the year before, made the Harvard special teams into his own private highlight reel—including four returns for touchdowns. Future NFL draftee and Ivy Player of the Year Fitzpatrick, with pro scouts watching his every move, kept his focus and provided the team with unquantifiable leadership...