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...everyone can't be a star. If they could American Express would have to devise a new set of commercials. But take a close look at the Harvard bench tomorrow afternoon and you'll know what I mean...
Does this bother Peabody? Did Watergate bother the Democrats? Peabody, you see, is a football rarity, a "football junkie," the type of guy who, as he readily admits, "loves the game and the people who play it," who seems to get much satisfaction providing enthusiasm and cheers from the bench (and does he ever) as he would throwing a winning block...
...years from now, for all anyone knows, Fred Cordova could be the 1978 version of Bill Emper. Or, he could still be on the bench. One second thought, though, Fred Cordova doesn't talk like the type who will spend too much longer on the bench. He is different than Bob Peabody, and if you don't find Cordova on the field in the next year or two, you probably won't find him on the bench, either...
...definitely won't find Dave Mitts on the bench, not now, not next year, not ever. You won't even find him on the roster because Dave Mitts, high school football captain and all the rest, terminated his Harvard football career before, it even got started--after the training camp of his sophomore year...
...like when John Havlicek comes off the bench," Scalise said last night. "Automatically everyone starts playing better...