If you look at successful Aquarians, you will note that theirs is a new, unique, or progressive approach to whatever they are doing. They are blessed with a great fixity of purpose in completing what they started.
—Astrologist Carroll Righter
IT was perhaps inevitable in the Age of Aquarius that two young men born in the first week of February would ultimately battle for the same prize. But when Quarterbacks Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys and Bob Griese of the Miami Dolphins meet in the Super Bowl for the National Football League championship this week, they will have more in common than their Aquarian fixity of purpose.
Staubach was raised in the Midwest. So was Griese. Staubach was a class president and star baseball, basketball and football player in high school. So was Griese. Staubach was turned down by Notre Dame, the college he passionately wanted to attend. So was Griese. Staubach was named a college all-America in his junior year. So was Griese. Staubach is a Roman Catholic, is married to a former nurse, sells real estate, has blue eyes, short-trimmed hair and is modest and reserved. Ditto for Griese on all counts. Staubach is the leading passer in the National Football Conference. Griese is the leading passer in the American Football Conference. Now, on the eve of the sixth annual Super Bowl, the two best young quarterbacks in professional football are preparing to establish a crucial difference in their parallel careers: the difference between winner and loser.
The match-up of the Aquarians and their teams—little old Miami (the Cinderella team) and big bad Dallas (the fiercest force in the West)—has stirred more than the usual frenzy among the nation's pro-football freaks. In Miami, where attendance at home games averaged a meager 34,687 just two seasons ago, more than 78,000 screaming, hanky-waving "Dol-fans" jammed the Orange Bowl last week to watch their beloved Dolphins score a stunning
A.F.C. play-off victory over the World Champion Baltimore Colts. In Dallas, no less a booster than Lyndon Baines Johnson moseyed into town, cheered the Cowboys' N.F.C. play-off win over the San Francisco 49ers, roamed the locker room shaking hands, and drawled: "They wouldn't let us back on the range if you didn't win."
The nation's No. 1 football fan was not idle either. From the White House, Richard Nixon put through a call to the home of Miami Coach Don Shula at 1:30 a.m. Says Shula: "He told me, 'Now you understand that I'm a Washington Redskin fan, but I'm a part-time resident of Miami and I've been following the Dolphins very closely.' " During their ten-minute chat, says Shula, the President "talked real technical football. He told me that Dallas was a pretty tough club but that he thought we could hit Warfield on a down-and-in pattern." Washington Redskin fans, among others, have reason to be skeptical about the presidential strategy. Shortly before the Redskins' 24-20 loss to the 49ers two weeks ago, Nixon called Redskin Coach George Allen to suggest an end-around reverse by Flanker Roy Jefferson. Allen tried it, and Jefferson was nailed for a 13-yd. loss.