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By the time Portnoy's Complaint came out, in 1969, it was clear--and this was part of the joke of the ice-skating scene--that people like awkward Alex were going to wind up ahead of the gliding shiksas and their halfback brothers, because they were more book-smart.
He was remembered as one of football's funniest and most generous players, and his nickname, Sweetness, "was a tribute to his personality more than his running style" ( ESPN ). Chicago Bears Assistant Coach Fred O'Connor, who believed Payton was destined to be a legend from the outset, said, "God must have taken a chisel and said, 'I'm going to make me a halfback.
A Fan's Notes , which is being canonized this month in a Modern Library edition and whose author is the subject of a new biography by Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley, is actually more of a memoir than a novel, and is only incidentally about the former New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford.