Word: gridironic
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...This in itself created some historic irony - the cable companies absolutely refusing to impose a price increase on their hapless customers. And that isn't the only strange play in this gridiron battle. The league has succeeded in accomplishing something unique, something unheard-of in the history of modern media: getting consumers and politicians to side with the cable companies...
...football at the school altogether, reform-minded Miami-Dade Schools superintendent Rudy Crew purged much of Northwestern's administrative and football coaching staff. Then, he brought back a respected former Northwestern head coach, Billy Rolle, and hired a veteran principal, Charles Hankerson, with a mandate to emphasize grades over gridiron. "Monday through Friday we're really not talking about football," says Hankerson. "In some ways, we have to re-culturalize a whole population here, but I think we're having success driving the message home...
...think I know good acting when I see it. So it’s just a long process—putting people together.” A long process that is, except when it came to casting the principal female character, Samantha Booke. Jurnee Smollett (“Gridiron Gang,” “Roll Bounce”) only read for the part once before Washington made up his mind that she was perfect for the role. Laughing, he admits to also being more than a bit influenced by his wife’s non-stop insistence that...
...town square and the football field. The chamber of commerce Web site prominently displays a photograph of reddish brown cattle standing placidly in a pasture.During the three years she twirled with her high school marching band at games and pep rallies, Liles was a key component of the gridiron pageantry.“Friday nights just had this energy to them, where it’s just infectious,” she recalled. “It’s addictive.”She would flit across the field, focusing, as she always does, on making each move flow...
...totaling more than $600,000 - it's hard not to ask if the tragedies somehow stem from the reckless culture that coaches and administrators have too often indulged. The team rocketed to prominence in the 1980s by showcasing what fans and critics alike called thug-ball, a smash-mouth gridiron style that seemed to reflect the city the Hurricanes played for: Miami in the era of Vice, of violent cocaine cowboys and shamelessly venal politicians. Controversial rap music star Luther Campbell of the Miami group 2 Live Crew offered "bounties" to UM players who could knock opposing players...