Sex Before Sport?

"I went out and grabbed this girl and brought her back to the hotel, and we had a good time the whole night. It's good for you. It loosens you up good for the game." That appraisal of sex before sport--an activity frowned upon by many coaches--was made two years ago by Quarterback loe Namath as he described the eve of the 1969 Super Bowl. Namath, a well-known lov er on and off the screen and a player whose spectacular performance on the field seemed to prove his premise, had no scientific support to back him up. Now that support has been supplied by St. Louis Sex Researcher William Masters and Washington Psychologist Robert Harper.

Although the scientists, in conversations reported by the newsletter Behavior Today, stopped short of saying that pre-game sex is good for players, they insisted that it can have no bad effects. Told that Baltimore Colts Coach Don McCafferty had ordered players' wives to stay away from training camp before this year's Super Bowl, Masters could see no physiological reason for the ban. Sex, he said, takes only as much energy as running 50 yards. With enough sleep, he said, "I can't imagine a morning-after effect for a conditioned athlete."

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