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...Thank you for your cover story on pro football's Joe Namath [Oct. 16]. It was refreshing to hear nice things said about a man who has been condemned for a quality so few people have: the ability to enjoy and laugh at life. This world takes itself too seriously, and enjoyment of anything seems to be taken as a subversion of the "great meaning of life." So, Mr. Namath, please continue to sit back and smile at the world that would mold you into its conformity, and enjoy, enjoy. MARY ELLEN HEKHUIS Gulf Breeze...
...name of apple pie and the founding fathers, did you decorate your cover with Joe Namath, when there are so many really great people around...
...have seen Joe Namath with Raquel Welch, on the football field, and good heavens, even in the tub . . . but he looked most relaxed doing what kiddies like to do most-blowing bubbles. ROBIN CHOATE Colorado Springs, Colo...
COLUMBIA-CORNELL -- Two quarterbacks in New York have bad knees, ugly dimples, and white shoes - Don Jackson and Joe Namath. Two weeks ago, Broadway Joe beat the Baltimore Colts on a last minute bomb and took his private limousine back to his French Roccoco townhouse on Fifth Ave. to play with his electric bowling machine. Then last week, Don lost to Rutgers, 6-3, with a disastrous fumble, and took the subway back to his dingy room on Broadway to study for his organic chemistry midterm. Is there no justice? Cornell...
...trick for the quarterback is to recognize a zone forming while he is retreating into the pocket. In the case of Baltimore's rotating zone, the essential key for Namath was the way the two Colt safeties reacted at the snap of the ball-by bolting to the left. Joe and the Jets tried to counter the zone by using a slot formation (see diagram), in which one wide receiver was slotted inside another on the right side, while the tight end was split wide to the left. When Namath dropped back to pass, the outside receiver, Don Maynard...