Some complaints from the era were as follows : " rowdyism is rampant "; " crowds of uncouth boys loitering around the stores halloing in the streets, and breaking horses on the Sabbath "; " uncouth and ill manners in refusing half the road on meeting teams "; " using pencils on walls and nails on the rails of the bannisters "; " strip [ ping ] of his clothes " ( in reference to a mentally handicapped boy ); " intoxicated and using the vilest language "; " a gang " spitting " tobacco juice on the floor ".
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The ladies'long program at the U . S . Figure Skating Championships on Saturday night produced a 13.0 preliminary overnight Nielsen rating, up 57 percent from last year . . . Fox's 27.6 overnight rating for the lopsided NFC championship game fell 10.9 percent from 1997; NBC's 26.0 rating for Denver's 24-21 victory over Pittsburgh in the American Football Conference game was down 8.1 percent . . . HBO's " Real Sports " is at its enterprising best at 8 p . m . Thursday with stories on fraud in autographed memorabilia and rowdyism at National Football League games; a rare interview with the former Dallas Cowboy Duane Thomas, who spent 1971 not talking to anybody, and a poignant profile of Elizabeth O'Donnell, who teaches disabled people how to figure skate.
