Word: weeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering the circumstances, New York Jet Coach Weeb Ewbank's final instructions to his team before the Super Bowl in Miami last week 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...
According to the Republican, New York Jets' coach Weeb Ewbank is impressed with John's progress on the Orbits. He may bring Dockery up soon even if the Jet's defensive backfield remains sound...
...goes to next month's "Super Bowl"-most likely the Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys-will be favored to win. But one fellow with a double-lens point of view swears that Kansas City, man for man, is "the best team in either league." That fellow is Weeb Ewbank, former coach of the N.F.L.'s Baltimore Colts and currently of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets-who last week had their own title hopes wrecked by the Chiefs...
Winner, 41, is in his first year as St. Louis' head coach, but he was to the manner born - so to speak - since he is the son-in-law of Weeb Ewbank, coach of the American Football League's New York Jets. Weeb is an accomplished coiner of aphorisms, which Charley is fond of quoting. His favorite: "Statistics are for losers...
...first thing David A. ("Sonny") Werblin did when he bailed out the bankrupt New York franchise in 1963 was to hire Wilbur ("Weeb") Ewbank as his coach and buy time on the radio to ask: "What kind of a name is Weeb...