As he has demonstrated in a number of movies, Kevin Costner is the best athlete in Hollywood. Unlike, say, Gary Cooper in “Pride of the Yankees,” Anthony Perkins in “Fear Strikes Out,” or Robert De Niro in “Bang the Drum Slowly,” Costner played a most credible brand of baseball in “Field of Dreams,” “For Love […]
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Rochester’s pigskin past
Remember the Jeffersons Getting reacquainted with Rochester’s trailblazing NFL team Sports In September 1920, the Rochester media eagerly awaited the debut of the city’s fully professional football team, the Jeffersons. Owned and managed by Leo Lyons, the Jeffs were charter members of the American Professional Football Association, which was renamed the National Football League two […]
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They’ll fight their hearts out
There’s a certain smell to freshly mowed grass on a high school football field, a mixture of chlorophyll and dew and mud that wafts into a player’s nose and triggers a release of adrenaline and testosterone that carries him through the picturesque violence that will consume his mind and body and soul for a quartet […]
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Another Stab at the Big One
If you love autumn, you probably look forward to the vivid colors, the sweet evocative scent of decaying leaves, and the faraway hint of a bonfire as you stroll in the crisp, thin air. That’s all well and good, but autumn really means football. The advent of a new season is a time when hope […]
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Whole-wheat football
Super Bowl XXXIX featured no fake mooning incidents, no Desperate Housewives and, most important, no wardrobe malfunctions. I didn’t see a single gratuitous cheerleader shot. Come to think of it, I barely saw any women, which has prompted me to demand the FCC launch a full-scale investigation into whether the Fox telecast was directed by […]
