Word: namathism
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...most of all, I remembered attending my first Auburn-Alabama game. It was 1964--the year of Joe Namath, Jimmy Sidle and Tucker Fredrickson. All three of them were All Americans. Both teams were ranked in the nation's top 10, the game was sold out months in advance, and scalpers were getting about $75 for a single ticket. So I felt duly honored when my father invited me to accompany him to Legion Field for the occasion...
...changed so suddenly. The Titans changed owners and names, and surfaced with Namath; the Knicks and Rangers put everything together, overnight it seemed, and began to win as much as they had lost in the past. The Mets just lost their charm. They won enough to disappoint people, and ordinary mediocrity doesn't draw fans. They began to play like the Cubs, and started to look like them around the roster to boot. And then they stole the League and the Series...
...several reasons: Americans are spending more time in their cars, and 44% of the nation's women hold paid jobs, giving them more money to eat out and less time to cook at home. But the industry has long been overcrowded; Minnie Pearl's Chicken Systems, Joe Namath's Broadway Joe's and a number of other chains all fell on hard times as competitors proliferated. McDonald's will have to scramble harder and harder to stay ahead of the pack. At present, a McDonald's outlet requires a population base...
...several months in 1967 she lived with "Country Joe" Macdonald and was completely free of drugs. But her well-publicized romances with Joe Namath and Kris Kristofferson lasted respectively one night and a few weeks. (On hearing that Namath was at one of her concerts, she bawled...
...former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...