Word: namath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take a hammer to the piggy bank that Werblin had filled as longtime boss of MCA-TV. Over the past three years, the Jets have laid out an estimated $2,000,000 in bonuses for promising college players - $400,000 of which went to Joe Willie Namath, 23, a gimpy-legged quarterback from the University of Alabama who did everything last week except match the A.F.L. record for most touchdown passes in one game...
...record is seven. Namath threw only five against Houston...
Quite a season it promises to be, too. Johnny Unitas' knee is fine; Joe Namath's isn't so hot, but his arm is. Season-ticket sales are running 20% ahead of last year. The N.F.L. and the American Football League have kissed and made up, which means that Commissioner Pete Rozelle is now free to entertain antitrust suits by impoverished players and would-be franchise owners-while he simultaneously tries to sell Congressman Emanuel Celler on legislation that would exempt pro football from antitrust actions...
...canvas canopies, we would ask him in his magnanimity to overlook the selfish taunts of privates earning $83.30 base pay per month with wife and children back in the States. I trust he'll excuse these impetuous youths for not understanding modern patriotism. Our best to Mr. Namath also...
...mechanics and the morality of the U.S. selective-service system has reached a decibel count unmatched since the program first began-25 years, 81,000,000 registrants and 13,500,000 inductees ago. There are the predictable complaints about deferment of such people as New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath (4F with a legitimately bum knee) and Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, $200,000-a-year Actor George Hamilton (3A because he is his mother's sole support...