Word: quarterback
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...American Football Conference's Eastern Division and a spot in the 1975 playoffs. They were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first playoff round, but this year the Colts hope to stay at the dance past midnight. With a solid defense and an offense led by Quarterback Bert Jones-considered by many to be the best young passer in the pro ranks-they might well succeed...
Duck Hunting. Jones, beginning his fourth year in the pros, is now a seasoned gridiron thinker, as well as an accurate passer, who was once described as "football's Sandy Koufax." Last year he rated fourth among N.F.L. quarterbacks in total offense, leading the league in quarterback rushing with 321 yds. He completed 59% of his passes, breaking the Colts' record held by Johnny Unitas. Jones, 25, has but one eccentricity: growing a beard during the season-not to shave it off for the cameras a la Namath, but to camouflage his face for duck hunting...
...most effective scenes are about the college draft. Director Paul Galan focuses on University of Virginia Quarterback Scott Gardner. He is seen at the Senior Bowl, an exhibition that Narrator Walt Garrison calls "a flesh market for the N.F.L. [and] a forest of eyes" -the eyes, of course, belonging to pro scouts. Last year was a bad one for quarterbacks, but Gardner did not know how bad until he waited by his scarlet phone on draft day. The first round-worth at least $100,000 a year to any player -passed. By the eighth pick, when a Buffalo...
Married. Terry Bradshaw, 27, quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, currently trying to score off-season as a country-and-western crooner (first single: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry); and JoJo Starbuck, 25, former Olympic skater now with the Ice Capades; in Los Angeles...
...cops v. cons in a football game straight out of the 1974 film The Longest Yard. But this time none of the players came from central casting. The quarterback for the boys in blue denim was Black Militant H. Rap Brown, 32, now serving a 5-to-15-year stretch for a 1971 robbery and shootout with Manhattan police. Brown's teammates: some of his comrades from Green Haven prison. Their opposition: New York's Finest, who agreed to the charity game at Long Island's Hofstra University in order to raise money for retarded children. Despite...