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...sport long admired and abhorred for its body-crunching brutality, concern about the carnage is rising. Players, coaches and fans may never forget some of this season's scariest images: the vacant, confused stare of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman after he collided chin-first with a blitzing Phoenix Cardinal; the sight of Buffalo Bills receiver Don Beebe lying, out cold, on the field, with one forearm pointed stiffly into the air; the awful stillness of New York Giants quarterback Dave Brown after his head was slammed to the turf by a Houston Oilers linebacker. The high toll among quarterbacks...
...these feathered fowl are not running loose on their own. They are being exposed to student life at Harvard by newly inducted members of the Phoenix final club, in a rite of initiation...
...Phoenix members and their feathered friends were spotted in the front row of Science B-15: "Evolutionary Biology," said John W. Turner...
...happened, the wild turkey was deemed just too ugly and pedestrian to represent our nation. Even at Harvard, this view persists. You don't see the "Turkey Club" along with the Phoenix, Owl and Porcellian. (At the same time, they don't call the Porcellian the "Ham Sandwich.") What stands the boring, nocturnal owl above the turkey? Why do those musty 'old-barn' men prefer "oink" to "gobble...
They did the same regarding the Phoenix Suns's contract to A.C. Green...