America's TV Sports Magazine Weekend Kickoff magazine
date: label: date made
content: 1974
name: label: Player featured in article
content: Greene, Joe
label: Player featured in article
content: Thorpe, Jim
label: Player featured in article
content: Bradley, Bill
label: Steeler backup
content: Bradshaw, Terry
label: Associated Name
content: Pittsburgh Steelers
label: maker
content: 1670 Tavern Antiques
notes: label: Description
content: America's TV Sports Magazine <i>Weekend Kickoff </i> published by the Weekend Company for the Washington Post (Volume 1, Number 2) 1974.
label: Description
content: The magazine's cover features a color illustration of the Pittsburgh Steelers (Joe Gilliam, 17) and the Atlanta Falcons (Claude Humphrey, 87) playing football. Magazine articles include: Jim Thorpe's Son Life With Father by Paul Zimmerman, Mean Joe Greene Says He Isn't Mean by Bill Christine, Notes of an Equipment Manager by Joe Falls and Free Safety Bill Bradley by Dave Klein.
label: Description
content: The TV lineup for the weekend is also covered: Atlanta Falcons at Pittsburgh Steelers on ABC at 9, Washington Redskins at St. Louis Rams on CBS at 2, Baltimore Ravens at Miami Dolphins on NBC at 1 and the Oakland Raiders at the San Francisco 49ers on NBC at 4. Joe Gilliam featured on the cover was the first African American to start at quarterback since the 1970 merger. Claude Humphrey was elected to the Professinal Football Hall of Fame in 2014. Humphrey was named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1968 with the Falcons but he would later help lead the Philadephia Eagles to Super Bowl XV. The Pittsburgh Steelers would win the 1974 Super Bowl (IX) over the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 16-6. Although Gilliam started the season as the Steelers starting quarterback, he would eventually be supplanted by Terry Bradshaw.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: name of sport
content: Football
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Television
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.3001.083
label: nonaccession number
content: 2013.3001
label: catalog number
content: 2013.3001.083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: magazine, sports
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in; 27.305 cm x 20.955 cm