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W 3 Ail ..Tt r'f f Notes from a road Frisbees freak out Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part article detailing his impressions of a cross-country trip by Eric Steese, who is responsible for the numerous offerings of The Grump which have graced the pages of The Spectrum. guns laid out on a strip of bright green velvet in a drugstore. Serene and deadly in their quiet deadly beauty and potential, blued metal and dark wood highlighted by the green. I’ll take a bottle of aspirin, a bottle of turns and a .44 colt. S by Jim Drucker Every large city in the U.S. is famous for some sports phenomenon. New York, for the Mets; Indianopolis, for the Memorial Day 500; Boston, for the marathon race; Houston, for the Astrodome; Green Bay, for the Packers; Oakland, for Charlie Finley; and Buffalo for, for, hmm, now that’s a problem. Best memory. An unexpected trip up a canyon one Saturday morning when spring was coming, coming late since it snowed much in May. It could have been a very down and depressing day since the canyon was largely lined with trees still grey and dead from winter, but there was a pale green tinge, that new leaf green which the sun would catch as it came out from behind the broken clouds. New green, new life, and combined with the splash of water as the small spring and snow-fed stream raced by the house it made it hard to go into bad places, which was a goodness. The canyons are full of outlaws, those who go through the motions of being a part of the society even unto working “straight” jobs, but whose heads are elsewhere. How many hide so? — throwing up facades of normalcy and relying largely on drugs to make their environment palatable? Does anybody see the potential of a genuinely charismatic leader who can toughen these people out into the real world again, touph them with a justified anger at being forced to remove themselves from the world in order to live? See consciously that is, it is altogether obvious from the activities of the Reagans, Mitchells and Agnews that they are aware on some level of that potential and scared of it. by steese We have a domed stadium, which isn’t built yet; we have three major league teams (but the Bills haven’t won in a while and the other two are expansion clubs) and we have War Memorial Stadium. In short, when people think of Buffalo in terms of sports, nothing, absolutely nothing, pops into mind. Except, perhaps, O.J. Simpson who they remember not as a football star, but as a player who very nearly didn’t sign a contract over a disagreement of what he was worth. So, it is the intention of Fastball to promote some sort of spectacular sports event, bigger than the World Series, bigger than the Super Bowl, bigger than the Indy 500, bigger than anything since Moses parted the Red Sea. Leg one; Buffalo to Salt Lake Gty. The physical size of this country and its beauty and non-beauty have to be driven — better walked but who among us can make that Option at the expense of so many others? — to be realized. It is overpowering in its size if you let yourself consider it. While crossing it you lock your mind into a pattern of hours of travel — how long to cross the 400 odd miles of Nebraska? - and it is only after you have reached where it is you think you want to go that you can turn and look behind you and wonder at the magnitude of what you have crossed. Within that framework odd things crop up. The patch of wild marijuana growing next to a truck stop in Nebraska, the three people hitching from Washington (State of) down to New Mexico because the communes in the Northwest had too many bad vibrations — these met while stopping to cook supper on the top of the pass between Cheyenne and Laramie, 7000 feet up with unmelted snow drifts in spots, without hot food, and with one sleeping bag and a couple of blankets between the three of them, this all raising again the question of the personal view of the world. Is it my fear of a hostile world that insists that precautions are necessary when they are in fact not? - or are they somewhat mad and foolish for expecting this best of all possible worlds to somehow produce whatever is necessary? — or does the truth lie somewhere, damn its elusive hide, in combinations between those poles? Pushing the bus in Laramie (Cheyenne?) when one of those plusher four-wheel drive vehicles pulled up and someone yelled “you want a push?,” then disregarding any answer yelled, get a haircut! Flipping frisbees for funds We propose a sporting event to end all sporting events. An event which will bring hundreds and thousands, if not millions to Buffalo annually to partake in the greatest showcase of sporting talent. Fastball proudly presents the first annual INTERNATIONAL FRISBEE COMPETITION, sponsored by The Spectrum. To be held in the spring of 1971, the competition will be open to everyone, regardless of race, color, creed or ability. As in most sports, the motivating factor will be greed. First prize in the competition is to be $1000. Contestants will be judged on the accuracy and distance thrown of their Frisbees. Buffalo will soon become the haven for the Frisbee lovers of the world. Soon, people will forget O.J., they will forget War Memorial Stadium, and they will forget Len Serfustini (if they haven’t already). Thousands, hundreds of thousands, will flock to Buffalo and to Rotary Field, the site of the competition, with Frisbees in hand, waiting eagerly for their chance to throw the disc, waiting for their chance for fame and immortality, but mostly waiting for their chance to win the money. Leg two: Salt Lake to San Francisco. Couldn’t sleep so packed and left in the small hours of Saturday. West through Utah and Nevada. A sunset on the desert, startlingly vivid colors as it breaks up through the thunderstorm which lies some miles behind us. On across Nevada picking up a couple of people headed into San Francisco and one old man headed a hundred miles down the road. So many people on the road this way, packs, sleeping bags and less of a destination than a dream, an itch. Up the eastern slopes of the Sierras in the early afternoon. Vivid green of late spring grass before the sun has burned it brown, leading up to the jagged rocks and snow fields that cap them. A good day, capped by the long sweep down the western edge of the Sierras - so much longer than the eastern slope. Down the slopes past King Ronald the First’s fiefdom, Sacramento and on into the valleys, flat, wide and dusty or plastic. And finally as boredom and fatigue become almost overwhelming the long grades of the bump of hills surrounding the bay and the feel of the sudden drop in temperature and the restlessness of the air which so characterizes the bay area bring you back up, to be finally crowned by turning that last comer to see it, San Francisco framed as it so often is in summer against a background of looming gray fog. Frisbees bring love The people will flock to Buffalo to see the r.i altitudes compete in the Great Frisbee Spectacular. All other cares will end. Major league baseball stadiums will be empty — the people of the country and of the world will look to Buffalo, at beautiful U.B., and Alfreda Slominski will again be proud that she’s an alumnus. And as the competition begins at Rotary Field, love will be everywhere, and the world will be free of war at last, and even Mike Amico will be welcome on campus. Everyone will be happy. As the competition dyaws to a close, a community feeling of pride Jf/31 develop, a pride that Will fill everyone’s soul| kiioWihg that ihey had competed, or just watched the greatest sporting Classic of all time, the International Frisbee Competition. There was some coverage on the west coast of the case of a young Vietnam veteran “allegedly” being deliberately crowded off the road while riding a motorcycle and killed. The vehicle has never been found. You will recall that both Easy Rider and Zabriske Point have been heavily criticized for their overemphasis of violence. Movies and TV??? And a movie will be made, “Frisbee.” And a record based on the movie will be cut. And a TV show, based on a movie and record, will be produced and the promoters of the Competition will become rich, but more important, Buffalo will become the Frisbee Capital of the World. And when people think of Buffalo, they will think of Frisbee. Yes, Buffalo, Buf-fa-lo will truly be the ‘City of Good Neighbors.’ And comedians will no longer make Polish jokes, and all men will be treated equally, political prisoners will be freed, and Frisbeeing will become the national pasttime. Sait Lake City: A strange city, largely plastic and ingrown, being cut off both psychologically and physically by mountains and desserts surrounding it. The Mormans are now outnumbered but still hold the power positions in the state and local governments, one wonders what strains this may result in as time passes. It is legal to carry a weapon exposed in Utah as long as it is not loaded. The dim articulate black that one of the girls in the house is seeing is carrying a .357 - this is two, three weeks after Kent State? - you do remember Kent State don’t you? — and has been practicing fast draws. In the following days I will hear him criticized for being crazy and dangerous ... how long is it after Jackson State and Atlanta?... is it a mark of my own confusion and despair that he seems to be least taken a step to increase his own power in when and how he will die? That being crazy and dangerous is more a mark of the society than it is of the man. Most vivid memory of Salt Lake are the hand The Vietnam war will end, pollution will be controlled, man will conquer disease and famine, persecution and discrimination will disappear from the face of the earth. And all because of the International Frisbee Competition. Do your bit to save the world, and enter the contest. Entry blanks will appear in an upcoming edition of The Spectrum. San Francisco: So what’s to say. 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