Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes you look at a kid and you know he's a natural," says Joe Sr. "I'd come home at lunchtime. He was about seven or eight months old. He'd have a ball and a bat in his hands, standing there waiting for me when I came in the door." Out in the backyard, Joe served Joey as both center and receiver. He swayed the tire through which Joey flung the footballs. In those games, the natural child was never anything but the quarterback. No time was wasted punting the ball or running with...
...scrapbooks in absent reverie or sitting down to supper at home, where the dinner music is a taped interview of young Joe, the elder Montana seems a most benevolent stage father, and his boy's enduring emotion, of many complex ones, appears to be gratitude. "I love my kid, whether he ever played football or not," says the father softly, "but the part of him that made him so special, I loved that too. I'd say to him: 'Joey, it's not easy for me to holler at you; it kills me.' Joe understood...
...start of the Irish legend, Cool Joe the Comeback Kid, is also the start of the misunderstanding. He has been taken to be cold, indifferent, standoffish. "I am affected by things, but I don't show it." He is unflappable. I'm emotional, but nobody knows it." Off the field, he is undemonstrative. "At Notre Dame I was awed by the place in general and lonely at being away from home for the first time. Plus, all of a sudden, there were eleven other quarterbacks. I was feeling all the things people say I don't feel...
...exhibition season this fall," says Walsh, "we traded a quarterback who had broken an N.F.L. record for completions, Steve DeBerg. Honestly, I can't think of anyone Joe wouldn't have beaten out eventually." For Montana, surpassing DeBerg was a victory, and a loss. "As a kid, did your neighbor ever beat you at something four out of five," muses Joe, "and you still said you were better? I mean, you honestly felt you were better? You knew you were? Well, Steve and I were both that...
...anyone who has watched the gogglebox over the past six months knows, the television networks sold almighty quantities of advertising time to the makers of home video games. During the pre-Christmas buying frenzy, George Plimpton and that anonymous smug kid argued between halves of everything except the disarmament talks over whether the viewer should spend his last dollar on Atari or Intellivision. The commercial blitz paid off for all of the home console manufacturers. Mattel shipped more than 600,000 Intellivision units, a 300% rise from 1980. And Atari's Chairman, Raymond E. Kassar, said sales were "a magnitude...