We use a lot of pigskin, and pigskin is incredibly tough.
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They play in the Southeastern Conference, where pigskin is religion.
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So instead of the old pigskin, OBJ has taken to hooping.
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In my right hand, I cradled a John Riggins-autographed pigskin.
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But the 39-year-old athlete doesn't just stick to the pigskin.
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A love for tossing around the pigskin runs in the family, ESPN reports.
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Ask league officials, and they'll assure you that they dig your collective pigskin history.
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Remember that video where Zion airs out the pigskin ... launching it into the air?
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All weekend long, your favorite celebrities have been gearing up for the pigskin smackdown.
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The 'Bachelorette' couple tossed some pigskin in Malibu where they rented a beachside pad.
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They can also wager on how political — or not — the pigskin showdown may get.
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Sports fans can purchase 50's new favorite – the football edition decorated in faux pigskin.
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But Steelers kicker Chris Boswell didn't get the ol' pigskin very far to begin with.
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Just in time for the last pro pigskin battle of the year, South Carolina Gov.
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Begs the question ... is the pigskin worth that -- or should Kenyan be offering up even more????
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Yet the television tetragon has trained viewers to focus on the pigskin, always looking at the quarterback.
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Here's something to fix your pigskin blues ... Genie Bouchard playing in a tiny bikini and a cowboy hat!!!
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Yeah, maybe they'd toss the pigskin around on the weekends, but there was no "pipeline" leading to the pros.
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Activewear — the kind of garments our grandparents would've ran, jumped, and "caught some pigskin" in back in the day.
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The pint-sized pigskin profit's sights are set on the Carolina Panthers to emerge victorious in Super Bowl 50.
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But, I've always said there's only one person better than me at the pigskin and guess who that guy is?!
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But he ditched the bat and glove in favor of pigskin, leading Florida to two national championships, in 2007 and 2009.
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Before this gridiron guy was tackling fame in Hollywood, he was just another blitzing boy playing some pigskin in Monterey, California.
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NFL football even has made some futbol converts, with soccer players like Tottenham's Harry Kane testing out their abilities with the pigskin.
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Sure, there are sports professionals and broadcasters who have dedicated their whole lives to worshipping the pigskin and the "art" of football.
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That unnamed fellow is a Super Bowl champ, a Super Bowl MVP, a two-time NFL MVP and an all-around pigskin legend.
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Katherine and mom Maria Shriver spent Thanksgiving morning on a hike and then watched as the guys got into it with the pigskin.
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Boy oh boy, Super Bowl LIII really lived up its name this year; that was 60 minutes of gridiron pigskin getting played, right?
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Wilson tossed the pigskin all over the sand ... and even hit some dude for a deep-ball TD on a double-move route!!!
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Pricey pigskin NFL's new $450 million deal with NBC and CBS for "Thursday Night Football" works out to about $45 million a game.
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Their camaraderie and love of football felt genuine—a pigskin match made in heaven, piped into your home to accompany the pizza and beer.
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The menu at Leña, whose focus is wood-fired meats, includes an ibérico de bellota tasting that is crowned with shards of crispy pigskin.
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AND FINALLY ... Packed pigskin It's Super Bowl week, so there's no better time to watch the Slo Mo Guys over-inflate a bunch of footballs.
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There's also the famous football fans that are watching the Super Bowl from the comfort of their home (or, in some cases, pigskin-themed party).
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Check out this clip, shot by Johnny's good friend OVO Ryan, appearing to show the QB tossing around the pigskin with some friends in Miami.
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Amendola and Olivia Culpo -- Miss Universe 2012 -- hit the sand in South Beach on Tuesday armed with a pigskin and some very small bathing suits.
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But that didn't stop father and son from visiting the University of Michigan — Tom's alma mater — to toss the pigskin around on a real football field.
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With rumors swirling that he'll start training with Tom Brady, Randy Moss picked up the pigskin this weekend ... for a pickup beach game in St. Lucia.
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Check out the female Bengal, the goat Jet and the Joker Saint ... proving NFL Sundays can turn any average Jane and Joe into a pigskin psycho.
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AND FINALLY ... Football fail We know who's not talking about the Super Bowl this morning: these folks from "Jeopardy," who totally whiffed on a pigskin category.
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A Miami Dolphins safety — one of several NFL athletes to kneel during the national anthem — is among the league's players temporarily trading the pigskin for politics.
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Megan handled the pigskin like a pro though, eventually tossing it around with other guests at the shindig -- but we suspect her blue heels are NOT regulation.
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Crazy enough to be damn true ... it's called A7FL ... a 7-on-7 pigskin league with absolutely zero safety equipment protecting the players from demolishing each other.
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The 26-year-old, originally from Slovenia, was standing near her mock-up collection of stylish biker jackets and totes, at this stage made out of pigskin.
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We walk over to the pet store and let the puppy choose a new treat for his bravery — he picks a pigskin stick that smells freakishly like bacon.
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Donald Trump has a pigskin past -- saying he played football "at a very low level" back in high school ... and learned some important life lessons on the gridiron.
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For the not-so-pigskin-inclined, here's a rundown of what made Super Bowl 50 a moment in pop culture as much as it is a football game.
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Brett Favre, John Elway, Tony Romo ... NONE of these dudes had the ability to chuck the pigskin like Patrick Mahomes does -- so says ex-Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil.
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If you don't know what I am talking about, watch this: "Back in '82 I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile," Uncle Rico recalls.
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In that docuseries, investigators hired a random 10-year-old boy to hit a pigskin-wig contraption with a flashlight to prove a child could have committed the murder.
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The ex–Philadelphia Eagle is one of the coaches for Tuesday's Congressional Football Game, in which members of Congress and former pigskin pros face off against U.S. Capitol Police.
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For a show about teens running around chasing a pigskin, Coop and Spencer's scenes together, which usually revolve around questions of duty, family, and the future, pack an emotional wallop.
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Listen up, football crazed guys (and some girls) ... Erin Andrews is about to tell you how to teach your pigskin illiterate significant other all about the nuances of the gridiron.
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Last Friday night—yes, under the lights, clear eyes and whatnot—Bulldogs kicker Adrian Medina successfully banged the pigskin off the grill of Kountze Lions hands-team member Lemuel Walters.
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You thought it'd never happen ... but Johnny Manziel is back making throws in an NFL stadium ... kinda ... playing parking lot pigskin with some fans at the Cowboys/Giants game Sunday night.
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Troy Aikman says Josh Rosen ain't just any ol' QB prospect ... the UCLA star tosses the ball as good as anyone he's ever seen fire the pigskin on the football field.
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Of course, Brady's been all over La La Land this week ... he was spotted throwin' the pigskin with some UCLA players earlier in the day before joining the stars for dinner.
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Teresa Giudice is keeping things afloat at home in New Jersey while her hubby, Joe, is heading to his new home in Italy ... doing it with the help of some American pigskin.
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TPSF VIII, set for February 6, will be a pigskin extravaganza complete with live music by the Wasted Potential Brass Band, a Frisbee dog halftime show and entertainment by Peaches, the dancing mascot.
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They pull the same stunt on some other kinds of sportsballs, too, but for us Americans, the pigskin version sure is better than watching Tom Brady run up and down a field.[YouTube]
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We got the guys out at Pink's Hot Dogs in L.A. (football players gotta eat) and asked them how Tinseltown pigskin fans are supposed to make their decision between the Chargers and Rams.
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Joseph Baena was tossing the pigskin, shirtless on the beach in Malibu -- and the 18-year-old college student unintentionally struck a lot of the poses his father did back in the '80s.
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The Cowboys superstar officially hung up his cleats at a news conference on Thursday ... and J.J. thanked Witten for his 15 years of service by giving him a pigskin covered in REAL diamonds.
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But a treasure trove of pigskin-centered cinema classics were released from the 1920s through the '40s, like Father Was a Fullback, The Big Game, Saturday's Heroes, Good News, and Knute Rockne, All American.
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But, the fan wasn't a Browns supporter -- or a fan of money -- because he took the valuable pigskin and fired it right back onto the field in disgust ... screaming and yelling the entire time.
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Aside from a boatload of promotional videos and some serious sideline time at America's most popular sport, Microsoft is showing some pigskin love with officially sanctioned NFL team Type Covers for the Surface Pro.
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And because these two can never resist an artfully posed belly grab, the NFL star takes a moment to caress his wife's stomach like it's a pigskin on the last play of the Super Bowl.
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Those of us who are getting ready for the pigskin playoff generally fall into two categories: super-enthusiastic sports fans or the casual watcher who is more enthusiastic about the queso dip than the quarterback.
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We got Munoz at LAX and asked him if the new Johnny Football has a chance to capture his old pigskin glory again, or if he's done too much to ever be taken seriously again.
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The pigskin terrine has a subtle porky flavor and an intensely chewy texture, like a cool slippery piece of pork rubber topped with delicious garlic chives coated in a tangy soy, sesame and garlic sauce.
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The frame of the Barcelona chair, for example, originally nine steel components bolted together, was designed as a seamless piece of stainless steel, and cowhide instead of pigskin was used for seat and back coverings.
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Walker was part of a USO tour to various U.S. military bases in the Middle East, Asia and North America -- where he learned how to fire weapons, ride camels and even threw around the pigskin!
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The pigskin Kenyan Drake famously ran in with no time left on the clock in a Week 14 stunning win over the Pats received plenty of attention -- earning 23 total bids during the Steiner Sports auction.
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ITK hears that the former Indianapolis Colts player, who was sworn into Congress earlier this month, will be catching all the pigskin action with a first-time Super Bowl viewer: his 9-month-old son, Alexander.
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At the peak of the America-I-Was-Promised hierarchy is a weekend afternoon with a beer in hand, watching football (US pigskin or otherwise) on TV while ensconced in an overstuffed La-Z-Boy recliner.
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We got Beasley at the Braves' home opener (props for the ATL pride) ... and he told us the Migos rap star showed some glimpses of Mike Vick when he was slingin' the pigskin for Berkmar High.
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Goff headed to Oaks Christian School -- a high school in the L.A. area -- and tossed the pigskin around with some aspiring pros earlier this month including Florida State's Jesus "Bobo" Wilson and Quincy Adeboyejo from Ole Miss.
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After changing into a costume that made him look like an old-time football player, Gronkowski did to the Lego creation what he did to unfortunate pieces of pigskin after so many of his 92 NFL touchdowns.
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Initially intended as a no-spin-zone, where injuries were out in the open so all fans—and, yes, bettors—felt comfortable they were watching an unadulterated game of pigskin, the report has morphed into something far murkier.
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People can argue whether the national anthem protests are good, bad, or indifferent for the NFL, but there's one rock-and-roll cat who should probably sit out all discussions of what constitutes a "positive thing" for pigskin.
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Mostly, the game is played as a series of timed rounds: The attacking team has four minutes to capture certain areas or move a payload (think: the pigskin going downfield) while the defending team tries to thwart them.
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In case you need one more reason to get pumped for Sunday football -- Check out what these pro ballers look like when the pads come off ... and see if you can guess the pigskin players behind the shirtless shots.
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Charles S. Bullock III, a University of Georgia political scientist who was not planning to attend the game, said he expected that the legions of Crimson Tide and Bulldogs faithful were more focused on the pigskin than the president.
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On the other hand, the 22017 film that spawned the best sports TV show bar none (sorry Arli$$) is a paean to the pigskin that puts the talents of director Peter Berg (The Rundown, Lone Survivor) on full display.
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It will be an epic event — like it is every year — not just because a bunch of guys are going to bang heads over a pigskin, but for the multimillion-dollar TV spots and halftime show that Coldplay will headline.
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After Tom Brady's game jersey was stolen from the Pats locker room, White told Dan Patrick he has NO IDEA what happened to the pigskin that broke the plane in O.T. Note to future NFL champs -- HOLD ONTO YOUR STUFF.
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The pork-centric menu is still being finalized, but we've already got our eyes on the "Pigskin:" a big baked potato wrapped in bacon and dressed with chili, more bacon, cheddar cheese, sour cream, chives and bacon-crusted cheese curds.
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"You don't know how long you're going to play, you've got to save every dollar even though you are making a good salary," Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins told the Wall Street Journal for an article about the penny-pinching pigskin players.
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"In a perfect world, a live draft at a place like Buffalo Wild Wings or another fantasy football friendly restaurant would be the way to go," Zach Grant, 28-year-old commissioner of a fantasy football league called the Pigskin Misfits, told CNBC.
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Under a glorious supermoon, the Seattle Seahawks visited the New England Patriots, the first time they've met since Marshawn Lynch didn't carry the pigskin into the end zone in Super Bowl XLIX, because Seattle decided to throw it to Malcolm Butler instead.
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At 11R, in her new series "Selfie," Ms. Grzeszykowska uses pigskin to make realistic-looking sculptures of human body parts and photographs herself interacting with them: displaying a female breast in her upturned palm, for instance, or painting lipstick on a masklike head.
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Which is why it's significant that the league is thinking about making a change to the pigskin: The NFL has added a lightweight, quarter-sized sensor inside each football this preseason to measure actual game data as things unfold on the field.
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Johannes Gutenberg hadn't invented the ink, the paper, the press or the alphabet, but by combining their powers, he built the first printing press and printed the first mass-produced book: a 1,20343-page Bible printed on vellum and bound in pigskin.
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And that's got little to do with my IRL affection for watching 103 sweaty men fight over a pigskin, and much more with the fact that it's the one sport here, the wholly new horse racing aside, that builds on its predecessors.
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The pair tossed around the pigskin together at a charity event that kicked off a weekend of fundraising physical activities in support of Best Buddies International — a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Edelman was mic'd up for Inside the NFL and his adamant no-doubt-about-it enthusiasm that the pigskin never touched the turf, followed by his little scoreboard tête-à-tête with Falcons cornerback Brian Poole somehow makes the catch that much more magnificent.
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The import and sale of leather and fur made from cats or dogs has been banned in the U.S. since 2000, but it's practically impossible to discern dog leather from cow or pigskin (especially if the material is mislabeled or not labeled at all).
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Fred Cox, a place-kicker for the Minnesota Vikings who scored the most points in the team's history and, while still playing, helped conceive the Nerf Football, a squishy faux pigskin that sold in the millions, died on Wednesday at his home in Monticello, Minn.
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The Pure Human collection is an assortment of prototypes—leather accessories made from pigskin that Gorjanc designed to test whether her technology is functional, and further, critique "the lack of legislation surrounding the protection of genetic materials," according to a statement writen by the Slovenian designer.
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That one Ghoulie teen very smartly reminds Archie he hasn't had time for heavily padded team sports since the age of 9 when he began selling drugs to help his nana out; an afternoon of tossing around the pigskin isn't going to do much for him.
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Those familiar with the New York-based German artist's startlingly visceral work, such as pigskin heads or scenes of dead animals caught in oil and tar, may be surprised at the quiet nature of Icons in Ash, which are more contemplative in their consideration of death.
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In case you need another reason to get pumped for the Super Bowl, check out what these pigskin pros look like when the pads come off ... get your game face on as you rush through the gridiron gallery and try to guess the NFL hotties behind the baller bods.
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These two industrious chums, they explain within the press release, were just "reminiscing 'bout the good old days" of throwing the ole' pigskin around when they decided it'd be a swell idea to make a beer with chicory, coffee, milk, sugar, and two varieties of mace, the first taken from the hull of a nutmeg shell and the other being the same chile oil that's found in Mace's pepper spray.
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The Super Bowl is getting political before the pigskin even hits the field, with at least one sports betting site taking wagers on President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's presence during the big game.
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You might have missed it on account of a concerted effort not to spend any more of this precious life thinking about pigskin PSI levels, but Deflategate officially ended last night when the NFLPA announced that it would not pursue any further legal action against the league for the four-game suspension handed down for a combination of Tom Brady maybe deflating balls and not surrendering his cell phone for inspection. Parity.
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