Word: packers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Straffmyer eked out a 7-6 decision over 177-pounder Rick Clark of Dartmouth in a bout in which the lead changed hands three times. The "Pennsylvania Packer's" superior condition was the key factor as Straffmyer was aggressive throughout...
...business administration are the most popular specialties. Indeed, it is hard to find a pro football team without at least one player scholar or administrator. Nick Buoniconti, the Miami Dolphins linebacker, runs a law practice (Garber & Buoniconti), as does inactive Packer Center Ken Bowman. Blaine Nye, who plays guard for the Dallas Cowboys, has a University of Washington M.A. in physics and a Stanford master's in business administration that he plans to apply to a career in corporate banking or business marketing. In hockey, a game not noted for the intellect of its players, Montreal Canadien Goalie...
While Edmondson is a deft public speaker, Bellmon, who looks more like a Green Bay Packer than a Senator, never knows what to do with his hands and stumbles over every speech. But that wins him sympathy. "Pore Henry," Oklahomans say somewhat admiringly, "cain't speak worth a damn." Bellmon by a hair...
...ironic that Green Bay, which has made football a municipal religion, has become a purgatory for its coach. Part of the reason is that the ghost of the revered Vince Lombardi still haunts the town. During the '60s he led the then awesome Packers to five National Football League championships and gave Green Bay an excuse to call itself "Titletown, U.S.A." Even now noon Masses are canceled on Sundays when Packer road games are telecast back home at that hour; music piped through the halls of the local Ramada Inn is supplanted on Sunday afternoons by radio coverage...
Everyone feels that he has a stake in the team. The Packers are, in fact, the only community-owned team in pro football. (Packer stock was sold at $25 a share 25 years ago, when the club was nearly bankrupt.) Green Bay (pop. 90,000) is also the smallest city with an N.F.L. franchise. Says one Packer coach: "People here have only four things to do-eat, sleep, make babies and root for the team...