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...Brown, Ewbank, Blanton Collier or any other coach of his experience. "The players can sense a copy," he thinks, and this has also been his view of quarterbacking. "I didn't try to jam Johnny Unitas' style down Bob Griese's throat. I never expected David Woodley to be Griese...
Then last week's game began, and in a few hours, give or take $25 million worth of TV commercials, the most irritating pro football season gave way to the most entertaining Super Bowl. The heroic and tragic figures, Washington Fullback John Riggins and Miami Quarterback David Woodley, were clear-cut and equally attractive in different ways, unlike management's Jack Donlan and labor's Ed Garvey. The Redskins won straightforwardly, 27-17, and the Dolphins lost that...
...Shula advised, "and look at things objectively." Besides being the year of the strike, this is the year that Don Reese, a former Dolphin defensive end, told his story of widespread cocaine use in the league and was thoroughly believed. No wonder Shula declined to see much tragedy in Woodley's day. "David's only problem," said the coach fondly, "is that he has played three years and everyone compares him to quarterbacks who have been around ten or 15." After completing no passes in the second half, Woodley, who was twelve when Redskins Quarterback Joe Theismann...
...million words he committed to print. His column was ultimately syndicated in more than 200 papers; it brought him wealth, honors and worldwide fame. His lean, dignified presence was another of Washington's monuments. An invitation to the home he and his vivacious wife Helen had on Woodley Road, near the National Cathedral, was a command performance (Mrs. Lippmann died in February). Lippmann-called "the autocrat of the dinner table" by awed guests-would lead evening companions through Socratic questions on an encyclopedic range of subjects...
...Woodley is not a great writer and does not risk saying more. His prose is sometimes clumsy, seldom inspirational. But Team, like all teams, draws strength from its individuals...