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Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Arrived Athlete Baltimore Been Before Best Biggest Bowler Football Franklin Games Had Homecoming Hopkins Marshall Named Took Town Woman

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I am something of a ham. Yeah, I'd always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it wasn't as if you had to drag the words out of my vocal chords.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Acted Always Am Been Chords Drag Had Ham High High School Out Plays School Something Vocal Words Writer Yeah You I Am

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If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Been Fan Great Grown Soccer Sure Up

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Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and I'm thinking, 'A thousand dollars to see,' I said, 'There's no ballgame in the world worth that kind of money,' and yet the attendance for sports is more than it ever has been.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Attendance Ballgame Been Dollars Ever Every Free Get Kind Look Money More Now Now And Then Price Said Says See Someone Sports Than Then Thinking Thousand Ticket World Worth

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I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Allowed Always Because Been Blessed Brass Choose Colleagues Cult Every Express Gracious Had Long Me Opinions Popular Soccer Someone Stand Stand Up Survived Talented Then Top Topics Up Week Well Were Who

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I've been delivering these little homilies since 1980 - that's 37 years - and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries - and I trust you've hung onto every word.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Altogether Been Delivering Every Hung Little Me Onto Since Tell Total Trust Word Years You Npr

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As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Bankruptcy Been Could Demand Existence Fee Football Game Give Had Happens Made Out Play Put School Still Team Threatened Up Verge Well

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All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Been Extended Famous People Periods Sort Sports Suspended

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It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Been Fascinating Honored Leaders Likely Many May Military More Now Our Sports Stars Statues Well Whereas Who

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I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Any Been Being Boy First First Love Like Little Love Made Much Never Real Since Sports Still Television Writer

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