Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but don't try to tell that to the Dallas Cowboys. The National Football League's reigning Super Bowl champions have discovered that they cannot keep a good thing to themselves, either on the sidelines or on the field. First, a dozen teams around the league began buying up hot pants and spangles, then proceeded to out-cleavage the Cowboys' cheerleaders. Then, while Dallas was struggling to win games, a flock of teams once considered lambs suddenly turned into lions. As a result, the Cowboys face a struggle...
York Jets, who drooped lower than Joe Namath's eyelids after their 1969 Super Bowl win, seemed to be on the way to their first winning season since 1970. Even expansion teams Seattle and Tampa Bay had managed to damage the play-off chances of the league's powers, scoring upsets over Oakland and Minnesota. It appears that competitive parity, long the aim of Pete Rozelle and other arms negotiators, has at long last been achieved...
...balance of power is overdue for a sport that has been rigidly divided into haves and havenots: the same eight teams have monopolized the Super Bowl, playing one another again and again for a total of 18 appearances in the championship's twelve-year history. But parity on the field was wrought, at least in part, in the rule book. With the regular season expanded by two games to a total of 16, the league shifted to scheduling that pitted top teams against top teams and also-rans against also-rans more often than ever. The new scheme eliminated...
...addition, the super-competitive Division One of the ECAC has now entered a patrician-plebian stage, where the stronger teams get stronger and the weaker squads increase their moral victories each season...
...super-tough Hill (no relation to Calvin but he should be) did it himself, taking an option pitch on the left cutting outside the contain-man and doing a Walenda-like tiptoe down the sideline for the score. Dave Schwartz's fourth extra point made it 28-14 just a minute and 24 seconds after Harvard had apparently made a game by tieing...