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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Y. A. Tittle or George Shearing, but he can, discourse by the hour about Thoreau, Hegel, Kant and Gandhi...
...football, after all, is show business-and everybody knows that there is no showman like an old showman. At 37, Quarterback Y. A. Tittle of the New York Giants is only two years younger than Jack Benny; he wears high-button cleats, laments his departed hair, and eats meatball sandwiches before each game because he thinks they bring him luck. At 33, Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is the man in the collar ads, the face that launched a thousand razor-blade commercials. Each has a special talent: Tittle throws a football better than anybody (60% completion average, a record...
...sort of take-off on that old kids' game, hot potato. With a first down on the Pittsburgh five, Tittle pitched back to Gifford, who started around left end. Oops! Too many Steelers. So Gifford lateraled to Center Greg Larson, who looked at the ball and lateraled to Y. A. Tittle, who looked at the Steelers again. Now, Tittle is no coward, but there are no 37-year-old fools in pro football, either. Back it went to Gifford, who was now over on the right sideline looking for someplace to hide. And he lobbed it in the general...
...leads in defense, has allowed 14 opponents only 227 yds. and 10 points per game. The early-line odds makers make it Giants 11-10, or just about even. The only grumble is that Chicago's Wrigley Field holds an audience of only 46,000. But cheer up, Y. A. and Frank. Another 42 million fans will be watching on TV. And that's almost as good as the Beverly Hillbillies...
Born. To Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 25, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie, 25, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika: their first child, a daughter; in Madrid...