Cliff Branch was one of my favorite football players.
I got his autograph in the parking lot of the Coliseum in 1974, when I was 10, and he was 26.
The photo is by Baron Wolman
The Oakland Raiders team is fine
Their halfbacks and fullbacks burst through the line
Their receivers have zing
They’ll catch anything
Touchdowns they’ll make
On passes from Snake
I wrote that.
RIP.
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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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