Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang rape), "popping" an opponent (overtones of defloration) and "sacking" the quarterback (plunder and rape). Players try to knock opponents down, putting them in the "supine, feminine position." Indeed, says Dundes, "football is a ritualized form of homosexual rape. The winners feminize the losers by getting into their end zone...
...Just as apes raise their bottoms and present their genitals as a sign of submission to stronger males, linemen present their bottoms to their more prestigious teammates in the backfield. "Spiking" the ball after a touchdown, says the anthropologist, "confirms to all assembled that the enemy's end zone has been penetrated...
THAT IS the only mention of Panama, of Canal Zone and right-wing Southern paranoia fame, in these 175 pages, but it is the crux of the book. Chet suffers from memory loss; Catherine hires a private detective to inform him of what he did during the day so that eventually he might get it back. Maybe, then, you can go home again--but what if you can't remember home, or what it was, like? What if you can't remember when, where, or if you were married? In a minor key, this translates into not remembering...
...each time he exercised the shoulder he separated in preseason. He connected with Carr after only a couple of minutes of play on a 75 yard touchdown bomb. The ball traveled about 45 yards in the air before Carr gathered in a difficult catch and raced towards the end zone...
...Roger Carr aerial, Jones' third touchdown pass and Carr's second touchdown catch of the evening. Jones lofted the ball 30 yards in the air to Carr who gathered it in at the five-yard line before tiptoeing inside the flag at the right corner of the end-zone...