Reply #17: Rodney Marsh took more dives than Greg Louganis [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

He was a star for the Rowdies maybe mid-to-late '70s, when I was a Ft. Lauderdale Strikers fan. That was a huge rivalry and very intense home-and-home games. Seemed like whenever we played the Rowdies it would be tied late then Marsh would intentionally stick his right foot behind his left and trip himself in the box, sprawling all over the place. There would even be articles in the papers predicting it, but sometimes the damn ref would call the penalty anyway. I remember the Striker radio broadcaster, Rick Weaver, who also did the Dolphin games, practically jumping out of the press box in fury after Marsh flailed in the box.

That was a great slogan, kick in the grass. At virtually the same time Ft. Lauderdale also commisioned an ad agency for a slogan. Really creative: "Soccer is the name of the game."