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...good Christian gentleman-getting down on his knees to say a prayer." God apparently did not listen to quarterbacks' prayers in those days, and Clark soon went back to the grandstand as a constant spectator and sometime sport reporter. Last week he was on familiar turf, interviewing Joe Namath for our cover story...
...Namath has since made a believer out of many fans, and a lot of defensive halfbacks as well. This week's cover story, written by Contributing Editor Mark Goodman, explores Namath's style both as passer and playboy. Correspondent Clark accompanied him on the team plane to Houston for the Jets' recent game with the Oilers, and again on the flight back to New York City. "Though the Jets had lost in a big upset, and Namath has a reputation for being difficult," says Clark, "I discovered that he was modest concerning his own achievements, praising...
...world of swimming) are badges of studly cool. Though he may act a bit like Bobby Fischer ("he got more money for himself, which he deserved," says Mark. "I might be doing the same thing if there was professional swimming"), the image he really hankers after is Joe Namath's. He also likes to think of himself as a sort of swimming bellwether. Once at an A.A.U. meet in Houston, Spitz and other swimmers were dissatisfied with the starting blocks that were to be used. When A.A.U. officials refused the swimmers' request to change them, Mark called in a carpenter...
Because Bench is a brash, smooth-talking top-drawer athlete with a lavish bachelor pad in a Cincinnati singles complex, he naturally invites comparison with Joe Namath. The comparison is invidious. He is warm, friendly and never overweening. Bench's confidence is the deeply ingrained type peculiar to young men who have always known exactly what they wanted to do in life. As he recalls: "In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher or cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer...
...Washington for a booksellers' convention, the Oakland Raiders' middle-aging (44) Quarterback George Blanda plugged his ghosted biography, Blanda, Alive and Kicking, with a few kicks at other players. On Joe Namath and his $250,000 salary demand: "Nobody's worth that much. He hasn't played for the past two years." On former Teammate Chip Oliver, who quit the pro game to join a hippie commune: "He claims he once kicked a 75-yard field goal while high on mescaline. Hell, I punted a ball 86 yards against Tennessee-at the time I was high...