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...shot up his own home and then blithely retired for the evening, every loud noise seemed to have its calm counterpoint. "Just win, baby!" Al Davis, the pirate king, repeated a rallying cry to his Raiders as he stepped up to accept the trophy from Archenemy Pete Rozelle. All week the National Football League commissioner had been asked how he would feel presenting silverware to a man who keeps suing the league, and Rozelle bravely replied, "I've said repeatedly over the years-in court and out-that I have tremendous admiration for his work in putting together...
...N.F.L. is historic. He coached the Oakland Raiders from 1963 through 1965, when the upstart American Football League appointed him its commissioner. Once he began romancing the N.F.L.'s star quarterbacks, the Establishment came around to the wisdom of merger. Whether or not he was more capable than Pete Rozelle, Davis became the odd commissioner out, and a man does not go from czar back to coach. Al took his place in the owner's box, but the game plans continue to be smudged with his fingerprints. Now and then, he also enjoys booting Rozelle around courtrooms...
...Fassbinder's mammoth Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hr. 21 min.). In the time it would take to watch just those two films, you could have seen all ten pictures nominated for the 1937 Oscar and still have had time left over to catch a Pete Smith Specialty and a couple of Mickey Mouse cartoons...
...Tigers, tonight's foes, lost three starters from last year's championship squad. Princeton Coach Pete Caril, who has amassed a slightly more than impressive 30-2 record against Harvard, called this a rebuilding year at season's start, with the only certainty his backcourt of John Smyth and Bill Ryan...
Theismann's want for himself was to star, not just play, for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team he most admired as a boy. But a chance meeting with Eagles General Manager Pete Retzlaff made that seem unpromising. "How tall are you?" Retzlaff asked. "Six foot," he replied. "You look 5-10. How much do you weigh?" "One-eighty." "You look 165." Never mind; plenty of other National Football League scouts were attentive. When Theismann was not drafted until the fourth round, he was staggered. Even then, the claimant was Miami, which already employed Bob Griese. Theismann went to Canada...