Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take football. There has been more conversation in broadcast booths on the subject of marathon football games over the past three years than the issues of free agency, instant replay and turf toe combined...
...commentary is a whir of windmilling arms and an exuberant bark of POW!, WHAM! and ZAP! as the linemen collide. The fans have come to recognize the All-Madden players by their grimier shirts and more human qualities. They know Madden favors real grass over artificial turf and mud over dirt. From last Thanksgiving's broadcast: "That's kind of the way the game should be played. I mean -- Thanksgiving Day, the fireplace, the turkey, football players out there playing in the snow. Wet, mud, stuff like that, not carpet...
Then Brokaw hurried back to Washington, where 72 hours later he was the ringmaster of the first televised debate in history between all the Republican and Democratic candidates. On his own turf, relaxed and sure of himself, Brokaw was the star of the evening. But this too is television. The twelve candidates were disadvantaged by their numbers. Brokaw put them through the hoop, cutting them off on cue, egging them on to criticize one another. Trial by sound bite -- surely a poor test of presidential capacity...
...Yale Bowl turf is going to present some problems for the Elis as they prepare for the game of their lives today, especially given the fact that they haven't played on this kind of surface all week...
...hoping to hit one of the Harvard guys and stick his cleats in the turf, twist him into an impossible position, and break his legs," said one defensive lineman. "With the dry field, they'll run all over us. We'll have no chance...