Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Football and religion have always gone hand-in-hand. Pregame prayers, "Hail Mary" passes, and "miraculous" comebacks are all hallowed rites. "Like religion, football is ritualized," says Father Michael F. Ford, chaplain at Holy Cross and former high school teacher for Harvard football standouts Bob Joyce and Brian Sullivan...
...instance, in both religion and football there's special clothing," Father Ford says. "And the huddle is like a prayer, a prayer to `Our Lady of Victory...
...going to get up and tell them not to analyze humor," deadpans Paulsen. "Then I'm going to my room. I've been denying I'd run for President since 1967. But I'm mayor of Asti, Calif. (pop. 7), now. That's a stepping city to the presidency." Ford's former press secretary Ron Nessen has put together a film of Ford falling down the plane ramp, announcing the swine flu vaccine program, falling on the ski slopes, liberating Poland in the debate with Carter, and showing off his WIN (Whip Inflation Now) button. "The media got those things...
Washington political satirists, the Capitol Steps, will be on tap: "Hark, when Gerald Ford was king,/ We were bored with everything./ Unemployment 6%./ What a boring President./ Nothing major needed fixin'/ So he pardoned Richard Nixon." House Speaker Tip O'Neill is coming from the capital. Mercifully, he promises not to sing. Ford will wander in with his old football helmet under his arm, the one Lyndon Johnson claimed Ford never wore...
...really is nice to have an ex-President give us this legacy," says the Chicago Tribune's deft cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, who harpooned Ford relentlessly. MacNelly has a long-hidden confession: "I was the only living cartoonist in Salzburg when Ford fell down the plane ramp. My only thought was 'Gee, I hope he didn't hurt himself.' When I got back to the U.S., every other cartoonist had had a field day. I never did catch...