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They Said It
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum
September 20, 1993
?Charles Flaherty, speaker of the Massachusetts House, on a proposed covered stadium for the New England Patriots: "Why do we need a domed stadium? So we can watch somebody kick a football 70 feet in the air every fourth down?"
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September 20, 1993

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?Charles Flaherty, speaker of the Massachusetts House, on a proposed covered stadium for the New England Patriots: "Why do we need a domed stadium? So we can watch somebody kick a football 70 feet in the air every fourth down?"

?Harvey Walken, part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, on the Chicago Cubs' failure to win a World Series since 1908: "Any team can have a bad century."

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