People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
AL MICHAELSI think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme.
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If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that’s good or bad for the game.
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I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.
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Well, folks. That’s the greatest open in the history of television — bar none!
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There are some things in life where it’s better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them.
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It’s the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print.
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No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
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Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock’s painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia…a true masterpiece!
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You want the lyrics to match the melody, because if you are composing a song or recording a song, it’s cacophonous if they don’t match.
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I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme.
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We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don’t know what a firestorm is.
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Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
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It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.
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Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step.
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And if there aren’t any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.
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It’s funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they’re always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
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