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...despite failures by previous promoters. "Other than soccer," he says, "track is the best-attended sport in the world. It's great to identify with. That's why Bob Richards lasted a million years. Ma and Pa don't want their kids to identify with Joe Namath. They prefer Jim Ryun." Perhaps. If O'Hara is right, Ryun and company may eventually give Broadway Joe a race in the run for the money...
...Namath and other athletes have painfully learned, the human knee was not designed by nature to withstand a twisting action (torque) when the leg is held rigid by a cleated shoe planted firmly in soft ground. To orthopedists nothing is more predictable than this "football knee." Houston's Dr. Bruce Cameron reasoned that while players must have cleats to ensure good traction, they need to be released from the fixed stance when they are hit by a block or tackled. So he designed shoes with a cleat plate that rotates in the middle of the sole. The player...
...Starr, Hunter, Namath, Seare, Stabler...
QUARTERBACK. Bert Jones, Louisiana State, 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs. In Baton Rouge they call Jones "the Rifle." "The Howitzer" would be more appropriate; a classic dropback quarterback who sets up as quickly as Joe Namath, he has the strength to throw the long bomb and the accuracy to make it count. Pro scouts note admiringly that while leading the Southeastern Conference in passing this season. Jones gave up only seven interceptions in 199 attempts. Son of former Cleveland Brown Receiver "Dub" Jones, the Rifle is already so well versed in pro pass patterns ("He's been throwing...
...Colts, both play-off participants last season, were in last place with a woeful total of only three victories in twelve games. Meanwhile, the surprising Green Bay Packers, dead last in their division last year, are now in a first-place tie with the Detroit Lions. As Joe Willie Namath might have said last week, after he threw a desperation pass that a Colt defender bounced volleyball fashion into the arms of Jet Receiver Eddie Bell, who ran for a touchdown and a last-minute 24-20 victory: It's just one of those freak things...