Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is Harvard's multi-flex offense, son. The reason why all the players are running around before the play starts is to make their opponents on defense think that they are confused. The defensive players think they are the cause of the offense's confusion, and they feel so guilty they let the Harvard backs run easily past them...
...quarterback dressing up like a referee--that is the newest wrinkle in the multi-flex. Every time Harvard is about to get called for illegal motion the dressed-up quarterback simply calls a penalty on the defense and the two infractions cancel each other...
...Israelis also wanted to "flex their muscle on the weaker links of Arab national contingency," and to end the current move toward national reconciliation in Lebanon, Maksoud said...
...legend in Dallas is that Cowboy Owner Clint Murchison bought a computer company solely to complement and exploit his coach's style. Whatever the case, one of the electronic brains was soon harnessed to answer a difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex defense and multiple offense? At Cowboy headquarters, part of the basement and a full wall upstairs are lined with 1,500 big black ledgers that detail the size, speed, strength and character of every professional football prospect known to man, God and the truly all-seeing and all-knowing: the Cowboys...
...dogged defensive struggle. Certainly Denver's strategy will center on its magnificent 3-4 Orange Crush. When asked whom the Cowboys feared most among that band, Landry replied: "All eleven guys. They play as if they were backed into a corner and fighting to get out." Dallas' flex 4-3 defense, led by N.F.L. Defensive Player of the Year Harvey Martin, is hardly a pushover either. The fracas in the trenches could be the deciding factor...