They Can’t Help Falling Out of Love With Him

For years, Atlanta Falcon Coach Jerry Glanville has been leaving tickets at the will-call window for Elvis Presley. At a recent game in the Georgia Dome, Glanville had an Elvis look-alike perform at halftime. Atlanta Journal columnist Furman Bisher reports on the response:

“To say that he was not well received is to say that the ocean is wide. They booed him. He sang on, and they booed on, and at the end, when he left on a motorcycle, said to be Glanville’s, they gave him their signature boo.”

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Add Georgia Dome: Glenn Sheeley of the Atlanta paper noted that: “As the 49ers filed into the dome, a kid ignored Jerry Rice and said, ‘I want to see Amp Lee.’ ”

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Trivia time: Who has more Heisman Trophy winners, USC or Notre Dame?

Where are they now?Milt Campbell, who finished second to Bob Mathias in the 1952 Olympic decathlon as a high school student from Plainfield, N.J., and then upset Rafer Johnson to win in 1956, is a motivational speaker and founder of a school for disadvantaged children in Plainfield.

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Long wait: Barbara Fay White worked for eight years trying to get a public golf course built in Shreveport, La., which had fewer public courses per capita than anywhere else in the country. When her Crooked Hollow Golf Club opened recently, she said, “Having three children was easy compared to this.”

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Southern image: Steve Taneyhill, South Carolina’s long-haired, earring-wearing freshman quarterback, has given Gamecock faithful hope for the future--on the field and off.

George Satterfield, owner of the Jewelry Warehouse in Columbia, S.C., said he sold more than 100 baseball caps with blond ponytails attached in one week after Taneyhill had led the Gamecocks to five victories in their last six games.

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Sack time: Mike Golic got up early last Monday and removed the potato sack hanging on his porch. A neighbor had given the Philadelphia Eagle defensive tackle a sack.

“He told me, ‘Since you don’t have a sack of your own, you can use this one until you get your own sack,’ ” said Golic, who finally got a sack in the Eagles’ 11th game of the season, a 47-34 victory over the New York Giants.

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Promises, promises: Orlando Sentinel columnist Larry Guest, noting that Notre Dame’s Lou Holtz has promised not to put a headlock on a referee again, added, “He didn’t say anything about the Lobster Death Claw or the Russian Sleeper Hold.”

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Trivia answer: Notre Dame with seven--Angelo Bertelli, Johnny Lujack, Leon Hart, Johnny Lattner, Paul Hornung, John Huarte and Tim Brown. USC has four--Mike Garrett, O.J. Simpson, Charles White and Marcus Allen.

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Heavy words: From Shaun Powell of the Miami Herald: “The L.A. Clippers, with fleshy Stanley Roberts and John Williams, have exceeded the calorie cap.”

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Quotebook: Ed Schuyler Jr. of the Associated Press, on basketball in New York: “If only the Knicks were half as slick as Coach Pat Riley’s hair.”