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...grass. The dirt. The roar of the crowd. The pigskin sailing through the air from one sweaty hand to an even sweatier crook of the arm. The sweet smell of victory. The bitter agony of defeat. Yep, these cliches are the staple elements of a football formula flick...
...second half, the Harvard offense awakened just a bit. With just over five minutes left in the third quarter, quarterback Rich Linden and running back Damon Jones combined for 71 yards on 12 plays. It took three plays at the goal line to get the pigskin into the end zone. But when Linden was pushed across the line of scrimmage by two Harvard linemen, 10,000 men and women of Harvard had reason to stand and scream...
...arrived early, before the Lehigh team bus, even, to fire up a grill, break out the chips and toss a pigskin at a tailgate. A brat, two burgers and several dropped fly patterns later, I made my way into Harvard Stadium, just as the sun took the bite out of the brisk October...
...users: Your sole choice is Playmaker Football, at $20 from Playmaker Software.) After fooling around with the titles that just came out for this season, I understand why football dominates the software-game charts: it has evolved into something complex enough to satisfy the most Nixonian of pigskin fans and yet is hugely entertaining for Sunday kibbitzers...
...powerful incentives for NBC and TNT (owned by Time Warner, the parent of this web site) to make this league work. Even with diminished ratings, football offers one of the last true mass audiences that advertisers crave. And at least the pair will be losing money with their own pigskin...