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Word: elway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Dan Marino or John Elway? Likewise, they can take that pigskin and throw it with precision and throw it fast, in addition to being able to heave it over 60 yards...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: U.S. Fans: No Throw, No Go | 10/20/1994 | See Source »

...occasion and fixed to the underside of the Superdome roof with 17,432 twist ties), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse watch the Broncos and the 49ers prepare for Super Bowl XXIV. Joe Montana lazily solves the Savings and Loan Crisis. At half speed, without pads, John Elway construes Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Montana helps a crippled child engineer a hostile takeover of IBM. Sweating lightly, Elway confounds Manuel Noriega's lawyers. In the locker rooms, impartial observers from the National Bureau of Standards watch all the other players put on their pants, one leg at a time. Reporters dance left; photographers dance right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Montana does card tricks, and the Four Horsemen -- Miller, Stuhldreher, Crowley and Layden -- are baffled. Elway conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has been trucked in for the occasion. The Four Horsemen start to applaud between movements of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune and are embarrassed. Stuhldreher frowns, then whispers something to Crowley. From two rows back, Fielding Yost shushes him. Nearby, Knute Rockne is worried he will not have enough money to pay his hotel bill. New Orleans seems a lot fancier than South Bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...grilled snapper at an amiable neighborhood restaurant called La Riviera, out in the 'burbs of Jefferson Parish. The snapper is the liveliest football interview in a town that has other important matters, such as the onrush of Mardi Gras, on its mind. "Joe Billy," the observer asked, "how will Elway do against the nickel, three pennies, car keys and a couple pieces of pocket-lint defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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