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Word: butkus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell's All-America linebacker, Mitch Lee, plays like Dick Butkus. Big Red running back John McNiff (130 yards, two touchdowns) thinks he's Walter Payton. The Crimson just think of going back home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Year Of Streaks | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...Herschel Walker really that good? For all those players and all those draft picks the Minnesota Vikings gave up, Walker better run like O.J., catch like Largent, throw like Unitas, block like Upshaw and tackle like Butkus...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: The Quake and the World Series: Baseball Takes Back Seat to Safety | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

...reason for all her enthusiasm was simple. Her son, my uncle, was a starting defensive end. He was pretty good for Ivy League standards. Grandma thought he played like Dick Butkus...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Longing for the Cowbell Ring | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

Somewhere around Savannah, you begin to smell it. You peel yourself out of the car for a Mountain Dew while the gas man pumps it full of unleaded, and it grabs you like a Dick Butkus bear-hug. You smell it, you taste it, and then you feel it: summer is coming--you are going to Florida...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Join the Pilgrimage! Florida Over Spring Break | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

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