Word: tarkenton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Giants football team was leaving for Boston to play the Patriots in Harvard Stadium, writer Dick Schaap gave a copy of "Love Story" to Fran Tarkenton to read on the plane. After sobbing through the last three chapters, Tarkenton passed it on to his roommate, a mammoth lineman. Same result...
After the book had circulated through the squad that afternoon and the night before the game, with predictable results, Tarkenton telephoned Schaap and told him that the book was "destroying the team when they were supposed to be getting psyched up for the Pats...