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...which stars Tom Callaway as the dippy legislator, promises a biting look at the ways of Washington, but its political satire is toothless and its performers charmless. In 1st & Ten, the curvaceous team owner (Delta Burke) talks football as if she were reading a foreign language phonetically, and the gridiron goons who surround her (a womanizing quarterback, a dumb lineman named Bubba, an oily general manager in cahoots with the Mob) are well past sitcom retirement age. The bottom drawer in comedy's bargain basement, however, belongs to the new sitcoms showing up on basic cable. WTBS's Rocky Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...course a lot of other factors have contributed to the lowering of the Cross, but you can't help but think that Holy Cross's fate was sealed by its president over the summer--far, far away from the gridiron...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Hot Dog! It's the Colonial League | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...growing gridiron gargantuan is Brown...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Newfound Promise in Providence | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

This year, the gridiron Bruins are making major Ivy waves. They almost stunned Yale, the pre-season favorite on the opening weekend, rolled all over Cornell and Princeton and almost topped three-time defending champ Penn...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Newfound Promise in Providence | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

...halftime entertainment drew to a close, the Harvard and Dartmouth football teams--unaware of the intermission antics--took the field to continue their gridiron battle...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Green vs. Blue | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

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