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Page (B The Red and Black, Wednesday. September 18, 1974
STEVE BURNS
NFL woes stay
At the time and place in the proceeding
course of human events which, however
fortunately or otherwise, we find ourselves
presently mired, ceaseless jolts of uneasing
circumstance have become all too common
place and the frustra
ted recipient — you
and I — are fed up
with everything we
see going awry and
can find no peaceful,
trouble-free haven
The Watergate busi
ness was beginning to ^
become old hat It BBttv i
started out as a joke, a sort of stage play
that few really took serious interest in Sam
Ervin’s Committee investigations ousted
General Hospital and the like among
housewives' daily TV fare. The cigar-chom
ping Herman Talmadge and the suave
Howard Baker surely tickled one’s fancy
better than Monty Hall or some old
horn rimmed, two-timing CPA
Seemingly fnvoulous charges were found
to have deep root in political scheming,
however, and it became necessary to usher
in a new and most welcome leader to help
plug gaps that had been widening in the
meantime.
America had gone to the john and gotten
the festering political indigestion where it
belonged. And thereby flushed it away,
seemingly
WK AM. felt better Gerald Ford was
much more suited to the national taste than
his predecessor Big. square-jawed, honest-
looking. It was much nicer to be led by a
former MVP gridiron star from powerful
Michigan after six years of a Whittier
tackling dummy
Then Ford, a two touchdown favorite for a
month, let his pardon of Nixon upset him.
not to mention the rest of the country It was
the last straw for everybody, for you
couldn't help but like good ol’ Jerry.
I say this because I wish to accentuate the
fact that I speak from the point of view of
thousands of you freakish, frenzied, follow
ers of sport out there who also keep an
occasional ear tuned to the real world,
because you know that someday you will be
in it yourself and you would like to learn the
ropes in advance, if possible.
What I mean is. it's football season.
F.nd-arounds, tailgate picnics, hipflasks,
and Howard Cosell. You’d die without it. if
you’re like me (and if you’ve read this far. I
assume you are).
The thing is. we almost DID have to do
without it. and 1 speak here of the National
Football League and its disturbing seven-
week effort to fatally rupture itself One
national trauma was enough We were hit
from all sides by disaster
Not everyone, even the most dedicated
sports page reader, really understood what
was going on. and most didn’t really care
about it. This is understandable, because the
heal of the affair coincided perfectly wit
the heal of summer, when piost of your
season ticket holders are at the beach
thinking about that next beer or that next
girl or that next whatever
WII.XT HK.M.I.Y happened was this Ed
Garvey. Yankee lawyer and self-proclaimed
labor whiz who pictured himself as another
Abraham Lincoln, got together with Houston
Oiler center Bill Curry, who headed up the
NFL Players Association, and decided to
give the owners some trouble when the
contract between the two bodies expired in
the summer of 74 (this dating from the
ill fated, brief ’70 dispute between the two).
Garvey. Curry and a handful of other
active players got together and drew up a
list of demands to present to the owners Not
negotiable proposals, mind you Demands
And weren’t they something
—No more contracts or option clauses
Each player will play for whatever team he
wishes whenever he wishes (which would
have resulted in the rich Miami Dolphins
starting an all league performer at every
position, as if they already don’t).
— Commissioner Pete Rozelle must have
no voice in disputes between players and
teams or between teams themselves
-The NFL player wants freedom and
dignity and wishes to be treated like other
workers
These were accompanied by some 60 other
demands Some were legitimate beefs, such
as reforming undue fines, training camp
regulations, dress and grooming codes and
the like. NFL players are grown men and
such petty issues should be left up to the
player, not the team.
NFL players are not. however, oppressed
and downtrodden They are healthy, well
paid, well taken care of and idolized by
millions. Most of their demands were
ridiculous The NFL we know and love could
not exist under such conditions
\I\TY FIVE PERCENT of the players
were not involved in day-to-day proceedings,
and didn’t give a flip one way or the other.
They just wanted to play. Now that the
season has started and all the teams are
ready to do their thing again, it becomes
ever clearer that the owners staved off
another uprising and smugly grinning and
patting themselves on the back They
remain in total control.
Garvey and his boys badly mismanaged
their strike Had they timed their strike for
say. the first weekend of the regular season,
the owners would not have been near as
willing to stubbornly wait them out with
millions of customer and TV dollars to be
lost.
It's a shame really, because the players
had some gripes I would’ve like to have seen
adopted. This frustration will only fester and
rise again as it always does, unless
remedied And hidebound, conservative
coaches like Sid Gillman of Houston and
Norm Van Brocklin of Atlanta will never
gain the player’s respect by cutting or
trading all the players involved with the
strike. They don't seem to understand that
labor unions and strikes are provided for in
U S law and therefore must be respected.
In short, the sordid situation is calm for :£
the time being, but will pop up again soon :£
because the owners won’t see fit to make
any peacetime compromises. They would
apparently rather go to war again, but isn’t $
that the American way? $
Jot* ban doesn't like war. His country $
wages a pointless one that partially turned
him against his homeland Another NFL
war would do much the same thing, bring $
aboil much the same sentiment.
Yet. the owners and players refuse to §
intelligently work in behalf of Joe Fan
whom they pretend to work for and
represent. They ignore him as usual.
\NI> WHAT does Joe Fan think about all >!•
this? He has lapsed into apathy again. He's g
munching on a drumstick and guzzling a
cold one in the parking lot of Three Rivers >£;
Stadium or the Los Angeles Coliseum before
the season’s opener “Strike? Oh yeah. :j:
that. he remembers and then forgets
again But we’re gonna go to the Super
Bowl this year.’’ he says and heads for his
seat S
Joe Fan can’t vote out an owner or a
player rep. unlike he can a President. But if j*
he could, would he° Would he actually take
the time to voice his dissatisfaction? You
and I both know the real answer
And therein lies the answer to a great $
many problems. #
As if all that isn't enough, all this comes
on the first day of classes, today.
Woe is us. $
Tickets on sale
Pin >li. bv JOHN BASSKTT
Clark on offensive
1974 marks the beginning of
Vince Dooley’s 11th season at
the University and the begin
ning of another chapter in
Georgia football history. With
the Andy Johnson era behind,
us. Dooley is in the process of
building a new offense. That
process was made somewhat
easier Saturday due to the
line performances of sopho
mores Dicky Clark (above)
and Matt Robinson. Clark,
who will remain the starter
for awhile used pinpoint pass
mg and nifty ballhandling in
tending Georgian new veer to
4K points and over
total offense.
4(H» yards
Football tickets will be sold
by two distribution systems
this fall, either a weekly pick
up plan or season reserved
tickets.
Season reserved seating will
be available to students of all
classes who are married or
will be sitting with the same
person every week The same
seats for each game will be
distributed on a random selec
tion basis. Tickets for students
opting for this plan may be
pickup at the Coliseum begin
ning Sept 11.
Sales for reserve tickets will
be held until noon September
23 at the Coliseum.
Students who chose the week
ly pickup plan may buy a
five game coupon book, for $5.
which may be exchanged for
seating stubs at game time,
each week. Coupon books will
be on sale at the Coliseum
ticket windows Sept 18-20:
23*27: and 30 The window will
Ih* open from 8:30 a m. to 12
noon and from 1 to 4 p m.
On Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday prior to game time
coupons and date tickets can
Ih* exchanged for seating stubs.
Any remaining seats available,
may be pickup on the day of
the game.
Date tickets for the South
Carolina. Ole Miss. Vanderbilt.
Houston and Ga Tech games
will be distributed on a lottery
basis, at a time to be an
nounced later, due to a limited
number. Date tickets are $7
each
Tickets for the out-of-town
games will be on sale October
1-3 at the Coliseum.
Coupons for students organi
zation block seating should be
turned into the Athletic Office
by 12 noon. Tuesday of each
home game week. The re
served seats can be picked up
between 1 and 4 Wednesday
afternoon
For the 1974 football season.
Students tickets will be distri
buted on a random basis. A
student will receive tickets
distributed entirely at random
with no special privilege for
class standing, time and date.
Under the random selection
system, one student may pick
up tickets for seven students in
addition to himself, or four
students and four dates or
dependents, a total of eight, if
he brings his own I.D. card
plus the necessary 1974 fee
receipts and dependent I.D.
cards for punching.
Students will be admitted for
all games at the north side,
gate 4 of the stadium, begin
ning at 12 noon the day of each
home game.
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On the opening day of NFL
action Sunday, the Atlanta
Falcons were humiliated by
the Dallas Cowboys. 2441 The
Falcons managed only ion
yards lotal offense as com
pared to Dallas' 411 Starting
quarterback Bob Lee was una
ble lo move the learn all day in
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seconds later John Smith bool
ed a 26 yard field goal for the
final margin of victory
In other action around the
league, the Los Angeles Rams
topped the Denver Broncos
17-10; Houston shaded San
Diego 21-14: Kansas City beat
the New York Jets 24 16.
Chicago beat Detroit 17-9; Min
nesou blitzed Green Bay 32-17;
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leans 17-13; Cincinnati blasted
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