"The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts."
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"I haven't seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun."
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"Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in."
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"Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day."
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"The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop."
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"Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.'"
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"That secondary provides worse coverage than a Guatemalan HMO."
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"That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?"
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"Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island."
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"Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!"
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"Is it just me, or are the 49ers doing an awful lot of ass-patting today?"
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"I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference."
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"Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week."
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"Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi."
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"Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians."
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"I'm an ardent American Football fan."
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"But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication."
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"And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds."
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"Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend."
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"[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly."
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