Word: namaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...also no surprise that he would pick Joe Namath as the quarterback for whom he has the most respect because Namath plays injured. "A guy's got a lot of guts to go out there week after week knowing that the next time he gets hit, it may be the last time because he might not be able to walk again," Plunkett says...
...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...
Reading defenses and throwing passes may be Joe Namath's specialties, but even he admits to their limited applicability in dealing with life's more basic formations. Broadway Joe gets jittery nerves just like everyone else. That is why, after a close game or a punishing workout, it is not the hot shower or whirlpool bath that Joe likes to ease into but a nice, deep meditative trance. He murmurs a secret word over and over again until the repetition, just like a massive tackle, blocks out his consciousness and leaves his mind refreshingly blank...