Word: underdogs
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Prosecution lawyers, who often tend to favor stable, relatively affluent jurors, shunned anyone they thought likely to feel undue sympathy for the underdog. While examining jury panel members last week, the state exercised peremptory challenges against the only Negro who had been provisionally seated, against a woman who had worked with psychiatric patients and against another woman suspected of having antiwar views...
...verged on the ludicrous. The squat, 61-year-old veteran of both leagues, still hobbling from a hip injury he suffered when his players carried him off the field after winning the American Football League title two weeks before, seemed blissfully unaware that his team was a three-touchdown underdog against the mighty Baltimore Colts, overwhelming champions of the National Football League. "Don't no body put me on their shoulders this time," Weeb said. "Two of you make a bosun's chair with your arms and carry me off that...
...turned out for the Jets, the role of the underdog has its psycho logical advantages. Besides, Namath's confidence was catching. By the time the Jets took the field they had more going for them than Joe's wide-open passing attack. Safetyman Jim Hudson wore his lucky red silk shorts. Fullback Matt Snell, a Methodist, wore a silver mezuzah sent to him by a Jewish friend...
...Shula, Baltimore head coach, had said, "If we lose this game, the whole year is ruined." In view of the results, this remark is pitifully sad, but humanists were probably pleased. This great game may mark the beginning of the revolution of the underdog...
...last time the Crimson met the Bruins it staged a three goal blitz in the final period to tie 7-7 in regulation time. Jack Turco scored an overtime goal for the 8-7 victory over an underdog Brown team...