Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with ten minutes or so remaining in the game, the Cornell punter, unheroically entitled Dave Johnson, stood gasping for air inside his 15-yard line. Had the snap from center taken too long, Johnson might have sunk into the stadium and never resurfaced, but the football arrived on time, albeit a trifle high...
Where 76,500 Giant fans sat on Sunday, there was once a Giant fen. East Rutherford, New Jersey residents, in fact, never envisioned a big-time football stadium in their private bog--they had in mind a couple of factories, maybe a sewage plant, or something. But a few years back, then-Jersey-governor William Cahill and a bunch of guys he assembled into an outfit known as the "New Jersey Sports and Exposition Commission" headed by Sonny Werblin, came along, and were so taken by the idea of bringing professional football to the financially troubled state that they decided...
...million stadium was consequently built in tandem with a mammoth harness racing circuit; its primary function at this juncture in its history is to pay off the substantial debt which the state must foot almost exclusively--oh, yes, the Giants pay no property taxes in Jersey...
Brendan Byrne, the current tenant of the Trenton state house, spry, ruddy, athletic-looking, exuding Charlton Hestonesque virility, stood in one of the mezzanine prestige-boxes which ring the new stadium on Sunday, wielding a soggy ham and cheese sandwich in one hand and glad-handing fellow celebs with the other...
...with People--the pedestrian walkways which ring the stadium must be at least 50 feet wide--at least twice as wide as those at the old Yankee stadium. Music--yesterday it was, of course, "Up with People,"--is piped continuously into the bathrooms, which are equipped with self-flushing urinals...