Word: ferragamo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brutality and bumptiousness of football were dismissed as fit subjects here 90 years ago by Willa Cather, the beautiful writer from Red Cloud, as cherished an alumnus as Vince Ferragamo, the handsome quarterback from Los Angeles. She admired the game as "one of the few survivals of the heroic," and it pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown...
Kemp, a quarterback like his budget-balancing, tax-cutting daddy, has caught on with the Los Angeles Rams. He ran into a good deal of luck, as the Rams' quarterbacking ranks were depleted by Vince Ferragamo's defection to Montreal, Bob Lee's tender throwing arm and 'Bama grad Jeff Rutledge's leg injury...
After the teams exchanged punts, Ram safety Dave Elmendorf intercepted an errant Bradshaw pass. Ferragamo passed the Rams down the field, and Corral ended the half by booting a 45-yd. field goal to give the Rams a 13-10 lead...
...never-say-die Rams charged right back, as Ferragamo threw a 48-yd. pass to Billy Waddy, and Lawrence McCutcheon threw a halfback option touchdown pass to Ron Smith to regain the lead for the Rams...
Bradshaw's oppositive number is Vince Ferragamo, Haden's backup, who frankly admits: "I'm a young, inexperienced quarterback. I've had to rely heavily on my instincts and earlier training because I haven't had much time to work with my receivers." The strength of the Rams is their defense and their goad is a history of failure ever to reach the Super Bowl. On Sunday the team's many veterans will be trying to make up for a decade of frustration...