Frank Gifford, New York Giant football star and Monday Night Football commentator died on August 9, 2015 at the age of 84. Gifford, both during his football career and in the broadcast booth, helped define the notion of the football celebrity and make football the national pastime and huge industry it has become. Gifford is also famous for being married to media personality Kathie Lee Gifford, and for being immortalized as the object of the author's obsession in Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes. Here are eleven vocabulary words from quotes by Gifford and about him from Exley's novel.
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