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...unless Clare is matched up with a premier lineman like Ferrara, his efforts often go unnoticed. Murphy frequently remarks that the team "takes him for granted," but that is the nature of his position. And despite his verbal flourishes on the gridiron itself, Clare would just as soon keep it that...
...Gridiron dinner in Washington in the eighties, Bob Dole looked up at the dais and saw Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon sitting beside one another...
Compared to, say, the computer industry in the past two decades, football has hardly changed. As a Dennis Miller fan and a beer drinker--there were approximately 6,000 Coors and Budweiser commercials during the three-hour game--I felt reasonably at home. Having forgotten a lot of gridiron lingo, I had no idea what a "fifth-place schedule" is, but Miller sure did. In fact, my listening to him debate the intricacies of a game I no longer completely understand must be similar to my aunt in Oklahoma trying to keep up with Miller on his HBO show...
Beantown's inferiority extends to the gridiron. The New England Patriots --who, if the team's name is any implication, belong to Vermont...
...year - Issue One was racist, Issue Three was bogus, and Bush's mantra on Issue Two was notoriously insincere. (He of course betrayed that promise by raising taxes once elected). But working the big bogus vein has a way of paying off in American politics. If 1988 was a gridiron, the Democrat, poor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, was playing high school football. Bush was doing it the way they do it in the NFL - rough stuff and the killer instinct...