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...York Giants football team was leaving for Boston to play the Patriots in Harvard Stadium, writer Dick Schaap gave a copy of "Love Story" to Fran Tarkenton to read on the plane. After sobbing through the last three chapters, Tarkenton passed it on to his roommate, a mammoth lineman. Same result...
...Schaap, apparently, attempted to make his book serve as a sort of Namath's Great Reply to the critics, and the arrangement of chapters alone shows...
What is most irritating about Schaap's style is his blatant pandering to a narrow audience. One chapter entiled, "I Like My Girls Blond and My Johnnie Walker Red," is devoted to Namath, the stud, and one can just imagine the segment of America that fancies itself he-man. Schlitz-drinking, duck-shooting and hard-loving smugly saying, "Yeah, goddamn, Namath's one of US, Fcrissake...
...SCHAAP is obviously a much better writer than one would conclude from the book. His epilogue, which explains how the book came about, and the problems Schaap faced in trying to nail down Namath, is superbly written, and departs noticeably from the Namath-voice that comprises the remainder of the work...
...Schaap's unfortunate failure to write I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow , as such a profile, with his own impression in his own words, dooms the book to fall into the same class as Al Hirshberg's Yaz, or Hawk, about former Red Sox outfielder Ken Harrelson, or Mike Holovak's Violence Every Sunday. And who remembers them any more...