Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clark, like many pro fans in those days, regarded the new league and its most colorful star lightly. "But one day in 1969, when I was bureau chief in Saigon," Clark says, "I set the alarm for 4 a.m. to listen to the Armed Forces Radio broadcast of the Super Bowl game between the Jets and the Colts. Joe made a believer...
...purse-draining price war for top draft choices like Namath that led to the merger of the A.F.L. and N.F.L. in 1966. It was also Namath who bluntly announced to a disbelieving sports world that the Jets would beat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in the 1969 Super Bowl, then led his team to a stunning 16-7 upset that gave the A.F.L. parity with the N.F.L...
...attack. Joe Willie did manage one touchdown strike to Halfback Emerson Boozer as the Jets won, 41-24. Then came the Baltimore Colts -now rivals of the Jets in the Eastern Division of the N.F.L.'s American Conference-who had beaten the Jets four times since the dramatic Super Bowl confrontation. Playing for the first time in Baltimore's cavernous Memorial Stadium, Namath put on the most spectacular aerial circus this side of the Lafayette Escadrille. Against the Colts' touted zone defense, which had yielded only nine touchdown passes in all of the 1971 regular season, Namath...
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: In a promotional advertising gimmick for last summer's job, he once singlehandedly put away for breakfast seven cans of "Nine Lives-Super Supper" between 125th and 218th St. on the Broadway IRT No. 1 train...
...building that provokes initial uneasiness. Massively heavy overhangs are supported by slender columns. An exposed glass staircase with no visible access projects out over the pedestrian's head. Alien green fiberglass covers the roof trusses. The concrete has been poured in super-human blocks twelve feet on a side. It's even impossible to view the entire building from any one points...