Word: nfl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cigarette commercials. Ghetto riots in the summer didn't make the news unless they were big ghetto riots (the little ones were expected.) July was too hot for big anti-war protests, though; demonstration season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed the NFL, while the Mets, on the way to the World Series, split a double-header with Montreal. In the Middle East, the war of attrition entered a new phase, as the Israelis began using their air power on Egyptian bases...
...Herald-Examiner said Cooke was pressured by National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle to sell either his hockey and basketball teams, or the Washington Redskins. He is majority owner of the Redskins, and NFL rules prohibit an owner from having interests in other sports franchises...
...spoke and answered questions before a crowd of 35 at the Eliot Senior Common Room last night, talking about life at Harvard and in the NFL...
...Yeah," Jiggetts said at E-House, "the NFL's been pretty good...
Like the one about Rudy Sorey, the lineman he roomed with rookie year who has gone on to be an NFL star: "People told him he was a joke rookie year, that he'd never make it in the NFL. He'd gone to Boys' High in Brooklyn and then to the University of Illinois, where he majored in being cool. But he's done pretty well...