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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. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees. "
Al Michaels
Love
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" Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. "
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" The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling. "
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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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" Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. 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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" Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there. "
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" People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case. "
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