Word: layden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opinion has never stampeded Brown, 80. In fact, it has tended to lock him in place. In 1950, after the short-lived All-America Football Conference disbanded, the leftover 49ers and Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just think...
When you talk about great personalities in the NBA, you cannot forget Utah Coach Frank Layden, whom the magazine didn't put on the cover, probably because he wouldn't have...
...Layden is a character, probably the greatest in the NBA. Put Layden in a joke competition with Bird and it's no question who will...
...Utah: Coach Frank Layden may not be the most successful coach in the NBA, but he is one of the funniest. Last year, he suggested Utah and Los Angeles exchange nicknames. Where is the jazz in Utah, Layden wondered. And where are the lakes...
...only Layden could exchange his personnel for Los Angeles...