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Super Sunday scored big with my friends and neighbors anyway. Even without HDTV, the gridiron never looked better--thanks to the jumbo screen and a hidden upgrade that effectively doubles the standard analog screen resolution. The casual consensus: the best TV picture they had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want My HDTV! | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...best part of Dunn's speech was when she passed the ball over to Steve Largent. He provides the Republican Party with the much-needed gridiron experience that it has lacked since the heyday of Gerald Ford. I hoped he would open his speech as if he were on the Simpsons--"Hi, my name is Steve Largent. You may know me from such NFL films as 'The 1987 AFC Playoffs,' or 'The 1985 Raiders/Seahawks Classic'"--but he didn't. Instead he talked a lot about God and Christmas, and how these things have led him to believe in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State of the Union, Undressed | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

What I mean is that a professional football game is the mutation of inert muscle (noun) into pure historicized act (verb), framed in a matrix ("gridiron") of time and space. At the precise pencil-point of time, the quarterback's cogito presses urgently upon the possibilities of the unthought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructionist at the Super Bowl | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

While Harvard and Yale had it out on the gridiron Saturday afternoon, the Crimson was tackling the Elis "over the board"--the chess board, that...

Author: By John P. Posch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Routs Yale In Chess Tourney | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...from "approaches to knowledge," the Core now teaches "approaches to trying your luck at begging professors for admission to overstuffed courses." Even on the gridiron, our mighty men of Crimson football, last year's Ivy Champs, have become this year's Saturday afternoon chumps...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: News Through the Looking Glass | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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