Word: northmen
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...those who lived in the British Isles during medieval times. For hundreds of years after their bloody appearance at the end of the 8th century A.D., these ruthless raiders would periodically sweep in from the sea to kill, plunder and destroy, essentially at will. "From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, O Lord" was a prayer uttered frequently and fervently at the close of the first millennium. Small wonder that the ancient Anglo-Saxons--and their cultural descendants in England, the U.S. and Canada--think of these seafaring Scandinavians as little more than violent brutes...
When Csonka, Kiick and Warfield signed with the Toronto Northmen for a combined total of $3 million, everybody figured the World Football League was on its way a lot quicker than the old AFL. After all, the AFL was knee-deep in pro wrestlers, cowboys, antique Olympians, mystics, and castoff construction workers for a good part of their first five years of existence. Back then, no one thought of tapping Paul Hornung or Bart Starr on the shoulder and asking him if he would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues...
...that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...
...based his precise location on what seemed to be large stone walk-ways leading from the rivers, similar to those built by the Northmen in Iceland and Greenland. Those stones were pushed aside for highways in the 1940s and have never been dated. Perhaps this is a sinister plot to play with history perpetrated by a powerful Cambridge ethnic group, one that would rather celebrate Columbus...
...Canadian Parliament. Bassett apparently hopes the signing of his glamorous trio will spur opposition to the bill. But the possibility that it might pass is of little concern to the three football stars. According to their contract, they will be paid in full even if the Toronto Northmen never play a single game...