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4/15/71 D. Sprinkle
Lawrence
Maddry
NORFOLK'S RESIDENT Evil Eye Fleagle has
zonked the World Championship Baltimore Colts into
an old gray nightmare and wants a $100,000 check to
remove the hex and put 'em back where they used to
be.
Ted Owens, Norfolk's resident psychic and the
most interesting badeye proponent of mind over mat-
ter since Sophie Tucker winked and hung up her gart-
ers, is at it again.
His explanation is as follows: "On Feb. 21 I first
wrote the Colts saying I intended to attack the world
champions of pro football with my mind, so that they
would have key injuries in the coming season to key
players, losing games they shouldn't lose, to stop them
from repeating as champi-
ons."
Colts Need
Luckiest
Horseshoes
The Colts defeated the
Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in
the Jan. 17 Super Bowl in
Miami. After Owens' letter
to the Colts, a series of let-
ters was exchanged with
the Colts' management.
Learning of Owens'
reputation as a wizard of the withering look (his abili-
ty to communicate with space people, create storms,
and predict the future has been chronicled in a series
of articles by Otto Binder in Saga magazine), the
Colts' leadership was wintering in Miami with swel-
tering palms.
It resulted in a letter from Baltimore Colts Presi-
dent Carroll Rosenbloom, written in apparent despera-
tion to Owens March 4.
Rosenbloom wrote: "For the life of me, I can't un-
derstand what the Colts have done to warrant a place
on your list of losers for the 1971 season.
"Please believe me when I request that you re-
move us from your list of losers. If you will please ad-
vise me as to a course of action which we could follow
to have us removed from this category, I will do what-
ever I can to comply. I note with great interest your
record of accomplishments and trust you will inter-
vene with the space intelligences on our behalf."
ROSENBLOOM CONCLUDED by requesting a
meeting with the Baugh of the badlook who claims to
have slung more misfortune with his eyeballs than
Slinging Sammy did at TCU.
Owens said the Colts' answers to his letters were
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Owens said the Colts' answers to his letters were "unsatisfactory" since he demanded $100,000, which has not been forthcoming.
"I need the money," Owens explained, "to finance a home away from sordid commercial interests and pay for a European trip where I intend to study the research of an Asian friend who developed a method of dropping birds from trees by the sound waves from his whistle."
"I think I can improve on his system and get greatest distance and velocity with a tuning fork," he added.
Owens has been frustrated by the Colts' apparent lack of interest in his $100,000 proposition. "I could sit in the stands and destroy the Colts opponents play by play if they would cooperate," he explained. "They could even use me theatrically if they prefer... with a canopy over my head or something denoting the presence of a resident psychic."
Frustrated by the Colts' indifference, Owens has been systematically destroying the team, he says, with intense concentration.
"For about 10 seconds in February I took a sheet of paper and made a square with the word 'Colts' inside it and mentally imposed special other dimensional effects including red and black units." It was, he said, pretty much like setting the clock on a time bomb.
Meanwhile, for whatever reason, the Colts have been falling apart like a Nixon speech.
On April 7, the Colts' star quarterback, Johnny Unitas, considered the greatest quarterback ever, mysteriously injured his right foot while playing pad-dleball.
HE WAS RUSHED to the hospital by Baltimore Colts halfback Tom Matte, who later came down with a case of bleeding ulcers while on a business trip to Havre de Grace, Md. Both are now ensconced in Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital. Five other key Colts players are also on the injured list.
Since the Unitas-Matte injuries, Colts' President Rosenbloom has gone into hiding.
"I have nothing against the Colts per se," Owens explained, "It's simply that I need the money."
Owens, a former professional knife-thrower and one-time secretary to Dr. J. B. Rhine, the nation's leading expert in parapsychology, has claimed similar feats to a skeptical public.
His most incredible verified sports performance occurred years ago when Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stan Hockman was a doubter.
Hockman wrote in a piece for the Daily News in which he challenged Owens to prove that he could do what he claimed, during a game involving the Philadelphia Eagles.
Owens told the columnist that space intelligence would assist him in getting Philadelphia Eagles full-back Tom Wodeshick out of the game. Owens said he would do it by mentally superimposing clumps of hair, like wigs, on the backs of the players. Hockman reported that shortly after the remark, Wodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting.
The Norfolk Evil Eye has since become more sophisticated and will probably experiment with his tuning fork on the Colts until his conditions are met.
"They simply don't understand the kind of hair-raising power that's in my possession," Owens said. He thumped the shiny metal fork with his finger, producing a curious hum. "Why," he said, "I could
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in the stands and destroy the Colts opponents play by play if they would cooperate," he explained. "They could even use me theatrically if they prefer... with a canopy over my head or something denoting the presence of a resident psychic."
Frustrated by the Colts' indifference, Owens has been systematically destroying the team, he says, with intense concentration.
"For about 10 seconds in February I took a sheet of paper and made a square with the word 'Colts' in- side it and mentally imposed special other dimen- sional effects including red and black units." It was, he said, pretty much like setting the clock on a time bomb.
Meanwhile, for whatever reason, the Colts have been falling apart like a Nixon speech.
On April 7, the Colts' star quarterback, Johnny Unitas, considered the greatest quarterback ever, mysteriously injured his right foot while playing pad- dleball.
HE WAS RUSHED to the hospital by Baltimore Colts halfback Tom Matte, who later came down with a case of bleeding ulcers while on a business trip to Havre de Grace, Md. Both are now ensconced in Balti- more's Union Memorial Hospital. Five other key Colts players are also on the injured list.
Since the Unitas-Matte injuries, Colts' President Rosenbloom has gone into hiding.
"I have nothing against the Colts per se," Owens explained, "It's simply that I need the money,"
Owens, a former professional knife-thrower and one-time secretary to Dr. J. B. Rhine, the nation's leading expert in parapsychology, has claimed similar feats to a skeptical public.
His most incredible verified sports performance occurred years ago when Philadelphia Daily News col- umnist Stan Hockman was a doubter.
Hockman wrote in a piece for the Daily News in which he challenged Owens to prove that he could do what he claimed, during a game involving the Phila- delphia Eagles.
Owens told the columnist that space intelligence would assist him in getting Philadelphia Eagles full- back Tom Woodeshick out of the game. Owens said he would do it by mentally superimposing clumps of hair, like wigs, on the backs of the players. Hockman re- ported that shortly after the remark, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting.
The Norfolk Evil Eye has since become more so- phisticated and will probably experiment with his tun- ing fork on the Colts until his conditions are met.
"They simply don't understand the kind of hair- raising power that's in my possession," Owens said. He thumped the shiny metal fork with his finger, producing a curious hum. "Why," he said, "I could put sounds in their ears, so they couldn't hear the sig- nals."
Virginian-Pilot Photo by S. H. Ringo
Owens uses a tuning fork to whammy a Colts poster.
4/15/71 D. Sprinkle
Lawrence
Maddry
NORFOLK'S RESIDENT Evil Eye Fleagle has
zonked the World Championship Baltimore Colts into
an old gray nightmare and wants a $100,000 check to
remove the hex and put 'em back where they used to
be.
Ted Owens, Norfolk's resident psychic and the
most interesting badeye proponent of mind over mat-
ter since Sophie Tucker winked and hung up her gart-
ers, is at it again.
His explanation is as follows: "On Feb. 21 I first
wrote the Colts saying I intended to attack the world
champions of pro football with my mind, so that they
would have key injuries in the coming season to key
players, losing games they shouldn't lose, to stop them
from repeating as champi-
ons."
Colts Need
Luckiest
Horseshoes
The Colts defeated the
Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in
the Jan. 17 Super Bowl in
Miami. After Owens' letter
to the Colts, a series of let-
ters was exchanged with
the Colts' management.
Learning of Owens'
reputation as a wizard of the withering look (his abili-
ty to communicate with space people, create storms,
and predict the future has been chronicled in a series
of articles by Otto Binder in Saga magazine), the
Colts' leadership was wintering in Miami with swel-
tering palms.
It resulted in a letter from Baltimore Colts Presi-
dent Carroll Rosenbloom, written in apparent despera-
tion to Owens March 4.
Rosenbloom wrote: "For the life of me, I can't un-
derstand what the Colts have done to warrant a place
on your list of losers for the 1971 season.
"Please believe me when I request that you re-
move us from your list of losers. If you will please ad-
vise me as to a course of action which we could follow
to have us removed from this category, I will do what-
ever I can to comply. I note with great interest your
record of accomplishments and trust you will inter-
vene with the space intelligences on our behalf."
ROSENBLOOM CONCLUDED by requesting a
meeting with the Baugh of the badlook who claims to
have slung more misfortune with his eyeballs than
Slinging Sammy did at TCU.
Owens said the Colts' answers to his letters were
=== **Page: 2 of 3**
Owens said the Colts' answers to his letters were "unsatisfactory" since he demanded $100,000, which has not been forthcoming.
"I need the money," Owens explained, "to finance a home away from sordid commercial interests and pay for a European trip where I intend to study the research of an Asian friend who developed a method of dropping birds from trees by the sound waves from his whistle."
"I think I can improve on his system and get greatest distance and velocity with a tuning fork," he added.
Owens has been frustrated by the Colts' apparent lack of interest in his $100,000 proposition. "I could sit in the stands and destroy the Colts opponents play by play if they would cooperate," he explained. "They could even use me theatrically if they prefer... with a canopy over my head or something denoting the presence of a resident psychic."
Frustrated by the Colts' indifference, Owens has been systematically destroying the team, he says, with intense concentration.
"For about 10 seconds in February I took a sheet of paper and made a square with the word 'Colts' inside it and mentally imposed special other dimensional effects including red and black units." It was, he said, pretty much like setting the clock on a time bomb.
Meanwhile, for whatever reason, the Colts have been falling apart like a Nixon speech.
On April 7, the Colts' star quarterback, Johnny Unitas, considered the greatest quarterback ever, mysteriously injured his right foot while playing pad-dleball.
HE WAS RUSHED to the hospital by Baltimore Colts halfback Tom Matte, who later came down with a case of bleeding ulcers while on a business trip to Havre de Grace, Md. Both are now ensconced in Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital. Five other key Colts players are also on the injured list.
Since the Unitas-Matte injuries, Colts' President Rosenbloom has gone into hiding.
"I have nothing against the Colts per se," Owens explained, "It's simply that I need the money."
Owens, a former professional knife-thrower and one-time secretary to Dr. J. B. Rhine, the nation's leading expert in parapsychology, has claimed similar feats to a skeptical public.
His most incredible verified sports performance occurred years ago when Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stan Hockman was a doubter.
Hockman wrote in a piece for the Daily News in which he challenged Owens to prove that he could do what he claimed, during a game involving the Philadelphia Eagles.
Owens told the columnist that space intelligence would assist him in getting Philadelphia Eagles full-back Tom Wodeshick out of the game. Owens said he would do it by mentally superimposing clumps of hair, like wigs, on the backs of the players. Hockman reported that shortly after the remark, Wodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting.
The Norfolk Evil Eye has since become more sophisticated and will probably experiment with his tuning fork on the Colts until his conditions are met.
"They simply don't understand the kind of hair-raising power that's in my possession," Owens said. He thumped the shiny metal fork with his finger, producing a curious hum. "Why," he said, "I could
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in the stands and destroy the Colts opponents play by play if they would cooperate," he explained. "They could even use me theatrically if they prefer... with a canopy over my head or something denoting the presence of a resident psychic."
Frustrated by the Colts' indifference, Owens has been systematically destroying the team, he says, with intense concentration.
"For about 10 seconds in February I took a sheet of paper and made a square with the word 'Colts' in- side it and mentally imposed special other dimen- sional effects including red and black units." It was, he said, pretty much like setting the clock on a time bomb.
Meanwhile, for whatever reason, the Colts have been falling apart like a Nixon speech.
On April 7, the Colts' star quarterback, Johnny Unitas, considered the greatest quarterback ever, mysteriously injured his right foot while playing pad- dleball.
HE WAS RUSHED to the hospital by Baltimore Colts halfback Tom Matte, who later came down with a case of bleeding ulcers while on a business trip to Havre de Grace, Md. Both are now ensconced in Balti- more's Union Memorial Hospital. Five other key Colts players are also on the injured list.
Since the Unitas-Matte injuries, Colts' President Rosenbloom has gone into hiding.
"I have nothing against the Colts per se," Owens explained, "It's simply that I need the money,"
Owens, a former professional knife-thrower and one-time secretary to Dr. J. B. Rhine, the nation's leading expert in parapsychology, has claimed similar feats to a skeptical public.
His most incredible verified sports performance occurred years ago when Philadelphia Daily News col- umnist Stan Hockman was a doubter.
Hockman wrote in a piece for the Daily News in which he challenged Owens to prove that he could do what he claimed, during a game involving the Phila- delphia Eagles.
Owens told the columnist that space intelligence would assist him in getting Philadelphia Eagles full- back Tom Woodeshick out of the game. Owens said he would do it by mentally superimposing clumps of hair, like wigs, on the backs of the players. Hockman re- ported that shortly after the remark, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting.
The Norfolk Evil Eye has since become more so- phisticated and will probably experiment with his tun- ing fork on the Colts until his conditions are met.
"They simply don't understand the kind of hair- raising power that's in my possession," Owens said. He thumped the shiny metal fork with his finger, producing a curious hum. "Why," he said, "I could put sounds in their ears, so they couldn't hear the sig- nals."
Virginian-Pilot Photo by S. H. Ringo
Owens uses a tuning fork to whammy a Colts poster.
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