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Everyone immediately thought of Joe Namath and his ad for Beauty Mist pantyhose, as if the guidelines would require him to wear them for at least one game a month. Not so. For Namath, of course, does not claim to use them but only, by implication, to admire them...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., while the country wallowed through another week of recession, Joe Namath pondered-and eventually rejected-a contract from the recently created Chicago Wind of the World Football League that promised to give him $500,000 a year for three years of play, a $500,000 bonus, plus $100,000 annually for his first 20 years of retirement. Apparently Namath decided working behind proven blockers on a solid franchise in publicity-conscious New York was worth more than the Wind's airy millions. If he remains as the Jets superstar quarterback, he will not be poverty stricken. Their...
...exchange, League Commissioner Pete Rozelle chooses who will be the compensation. Judge Sweigert's decision thus gives to professional football players a bargaining power they failed to win in their unsuccessful strike against the league last summer. It permits any team to sign a star like Joe Namath, who has played out his contract with the New York Jets, without fear that Rozelle will force it to ship one or more of its own stars to the Jets in return...
Another big plus for Harvard was the outstanding play of quarterback Milk Holt. The writer who suggested that Milt turn in his Joe Namath-like white shoes had better turn in his reporter's notebook. Milt was simply devastating, completing 16 of 24 passes, good for 234 yards and three TDs. Even more important, Holt threw no interceptions and fumbled only once, off a snap, but recovered it himself. The three TDs surpassed the number that Jim Stoeckel threw all last year (10) and put Milt into a tie on the Harvard all-time list with Ric Zimmerman...
...help but wonder, though, if Plunkett's respect for Namath isn't also laced with a deep-seated desire to be as "gutsy" or flashy as the charismatic Broadway Joe--off the field as well as on. Plunkett's walk-on role in the newly released movie, Airport 1975, may be a step in that direction--he brashly tells a stewardess that the Pats will go "all the way" this season...