Word: semipros
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...greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing game face rallied the Colts past the Giants in a match that helped spark new popularity for the NFL. His icy confidence inspired teammate John Mackey to remark at the time, "It's like being...
...sure had. Waller, who's 54 and on sabbatical from his day job as a professor of management at Northern Iowa State University, just happened to tell somebody at Warner Books that, yeah, he had been a semipro, Saturday- night-at-the-Holiday-Inn sort of guitarist and singer since college. And, yeah, he had written a song about Kincaid and Francesca called The Madison County Waltz...
Rose's father was a banker, a numbers man who always seemed to be hunched over a column of figures. He was also a semipro football player who competed into middle age for the old Cincinnati Bengals. "When I was young," the son recalls, "people would stop me on the street to tell me I could never be what my father...
...middle-class family. Although his parents James and Deloris pushed education, not sports, Michael developed into an athlete for all seasons, successfully competing in baseball, football and basketball. Larry Jordan, one year his elder, would prove a motivating force. Though Michael eventually outpaced and outgrew Larry, who still plays semipro basketball, he credits his elder brother for his aggressive style of play. "When you see me play," he says, "you see Larry play...
...take their sports vicariously. They arrive at the bar early every Sunday morning. Over coffee and the morning papers, they discuss the day's odds. "Miami, 2 1/2 over Denver," says the bartender. "Who do ya like?" Opinions are given, denigrated, defended. One of the men, a former semipro baseball pitcher, says to another man who was once his teammate, "You know, I'm thinking of making a comeback next spring." His former teammate nods. The ex-pitcher says. "What do you think?" His former teammate nods again. The ex-pitcher says "Would you like to catch me sometime...