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...personal favorite: it's gotten so bad that during last Sunday's game against the Saints, Ford Field fans started chanting "We want Joey" at New Orleans third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...structure and a draft that gives the worst teams access to the best young talent in a young man's game, create leaguewide parity - going winless is awfully hard to do. "It's mind-boggling to me," says Troy Aikman, the Fox Sports analyst and Hall of Fame ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who lived through a nightmarish 1-15 season himself as a rookie back in 1989. Several teams have managed to put together only one victory in a season, including the 2007 Miami Dolphins and the 2000 San Diego Chargers. But failing...
...Yale, on the other hand, is portrayed as a daunting and arrogant juggernaut. Brian “God” Dowling is the polished quarterback who hasn’t lost a game since middle school and running back Calvin Hill is a future No. 1 draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys. Several of the Bulldogs players come from families with long-standing ties to Yale, and while the Harvard players talk about picket lines and the University Hall student takeover, the Elis care less for broader global happenings and more about walking around campus and being treated like heroes...
...dirty tactics increase as the Crimson cuts down the Bulldogs’ lead. Bouscaren even takes credit for a cheap shot that he didn’t commit. But his antics seem to always backfire, such as when he draws a flag for a facemasking penalty on Harvard quarterback Frank Champi ’70 that gives the Crimson better field position and allows the team to complete its comeback...
...knew we were going to have to run the ball,” senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti said. “It’s just a compliment to the offensive line, when the defense knows you’re going to have to run the ball just because of the wind conditions, it’s a huge asset when you have those guys up front coming off the ball and making holes for Gino...