Plenty to be thankful for
Posted: Thursday November 26, 1998 09:28 AM
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It's time to step away from the turkey for a second and recognize the top
10 things reasons we football fans should give thanks:
10. Old backup quarterbacks. I mean, guys we gave up on in the
mid-'80s. Randall
Cunningham, Bubby
Brister, Doug
Flutie, Steve
Beuerlein, Vinny
Testaverde and one guy we gave up on in the '70s, Steve DeBerg.
9. Bless their little hearts -- the eleven guys who try to tackle
Barry Sanders every
play.
8. The NBA Lockout. See, I can only really concentrate on one
sport at time.
7. Archie Manning, for doing such a good job in raising a player
our kids can actually look up to.
6. Old man winter. There is nothing like a little snow, sleet and
rain to make you feel those bone-jarring hits.
5. Did I mention Doug Flutie? All those moves he makes. Jump
passing, laterals backwards during scrambles, underhanded passes, sky hook
passes. I just remembered where I saw those moves before. In the parking
lot before the game, those guys who we thought had one too many.
4. Chasing perfection. The Broncos at 11-0 wouldn't mean as much
if the '72 Dolphins hadn't been there first.
3. John Madden's 26 references to that 18-legged turkey. That's
just in the first quarter.
2. The Dallas
Cowboys. Love them or hate them, it's good to have America's Team back
among the elite.
1. The Eagles don't play on Thanksgiving Day. That could ruin a
perfectly good meal.
James Lofton, one of 76 nominees this year for the Pro Football Hall of
Fame, is an NFL analyst for CNN/SI. His weekly column appears every
Thursday exclusively on CNNSI.com.
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