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...content themselves with watching their team on the tube. Unless, of course, they're willing to head down to New York and sit in Shea Stadium. The Pats will face the powerful Jets (who have surprisingly won three games this year.) In their last victory, engineered by Joe Namath, they slaughtered the ever-powerful Tampa Bay Bucaneers...
...Namath's offense has put 50 points on the board in seven games, less than either of the expansion teams. At the present rate, the Jets should score fewer points than any NFL team since the 14-game schedule was adopted...
...only to Pele at the peak of his career. There was also Ade Coker, a young, temperamental character with flashy moves, and Shep Messing '72, a top American player who led the NASL in goals-against average last year. Messing also brought the Minutemen his playboy reputation--"the Joe Namath of soccer," they billed...
...Bear's players, wearing the red jersey means being part of a tradition that reaches back to Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Lee Roy Jordan and Joe Namath. Says Defensive Back Andy Gothard: "Football at Alabama is earthly heaven." For the majority of students, the equation seems simple: by their football you shall know them. Cleo Thomas, Alabama's first black student-body president, says: "A national identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing...
...fixes is real and its policing of the game is aggressive. A full-time staff of investigators monitors coaches and players, and the league is quick to act when it scents potential trouble; witness the celebrated suspension of Paul Hornung for wagering on games and the order that Joe Namath sell his interest in a restaurant frequented by betting types. Illegal gambling on pro football is already massive, of course: polls have indicated that 31 million Americans wager some $15 billion annually on the outcome of N.F.L. games. But the N.F.L. argues that any wagering, legal or not, carries...