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There was no deliberate humor in the battle for such stars as Texas Linebacker Tommy Nobis, who was drafted No. 1 by both the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers and the N.F.L.'s Atlanta Falcons. "That boy's got a 20½-in. neck," sighed Oiler Owner K. S. ("Bud") Adams as he flew off to a conference with Nobis at the Villa Capri Motor Hotel in Austin last week. Nobis also, it developed, had an attorney. While Tommy drank half a dozen Cokes, gulped down two club sandwiches and said nothing, Adams tried to find out what...
Against the growing probability that the mission would have to be aborted early, he ordered four Air Force planes to move into position in the Pacific for a possible emergency splashdown some 490 miles north and east of Hawaii. A Navy destroyer and oiler in the vicinity were alerted to stand by. Radioed Cooper: "We've decided we're going to have to either re-enter early or else power down." Kraft promptly ordered him to shut off as many systems as possible. Was the rendezvous with the pod still possible? asked the astronauts. "We're working...
...Dallas Texans: the American Football League championship, beating the defending champion Houston Oilers, 20-17, in the longest pro game in history. Ahead 17-0 at half time, Dallas was tied in the second half, narrowly escaped defeat in the regulation four quarters when Oiler Quarterback George Blanda, trying to pass to a wide-open receiver, hit himself on the helmet with the football. At the start of a sudden-death overtime, Texan Captain Abner Haynes unthinkingly elected to kick off, and into the wind at that. But the Dallas defense held, and Tommy Brooker eventually ended...
...Patriot games are about this wacky. In the Pats' 31-31 tie with Houston, the following things happened: Oiler quarterback Jackie Lee completed 27 out of 41 passes for 457 yards; Charlie Hennigan of Houston caught 13 aerials for 232 yards; Garron ran back a kickoff 33 yards; Boston seemingly iced the game by going ahead 31 to 28 with 50 seconds to play; and Houston's George Blanda tied the game with a field goal as time...
...week in the university library, took his classmates for "$20 or $30 a month" playing bridge, and kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture the chemistry department's sole scholarship, Keys signed on as an oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work for Woolworth, quit in boredom after eight months...