Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Football freaks in three other playoff sites-Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and San Francisco-hit the highways in search of blackout-free telecasts. Washington Redskin rooters packed 150 rooms at the Holiday Inn in Bethesda, Md. (40 miles from the stadium). The hotel, which is equipped with an extra-high antenna to pick up Baltimore stations, offered a gridiron buffet of lox, whitefish and onion rolls ($2.25) and a post-game open bar ($3). Fans at the Sheraton Motor Inn in Fredericksburg, Va., known for such victory celebrations as nude swim-ins, this time observed the Redskins' decisive...
...sellout throng of 80,010 cheered the Miami Dolphins to a 20-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns in Miami's Orange Bowl last week, hundreds of other fans were enjoying the game on color TV in the ten-story Marriott Motel just two miles from the stadium. The motel management had evaded the National Football League's TV blackout in cities where games are being played by erecting a high-sensitivity parabolic antenna that picked up the telecast of the Dolphin game from a TV station in Fort Myers, 149 miles away. Taking advantage of a special...
...class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
...opening night contest, the Crimson threatened to run the Wolverines out of Olympia Stadium and all the way back to Ann Arbor, scoring three times in the opening period. Harvard took advantage of Michigan's lack of speed almost immediately, scoring with just 30 seconds goal. McManama picked up a blocked shot that the Michigan defense was unable to clear and showed it in the right corner for a 1-0 lead...
Sportscaster Howard Cosell came into Miami for Monday night's telecast of the Miami Dolphine-St. Louis Cardinals football game amid threats from irate fans including letters saying "Drop Dead" and "Don't show up at the stadium...