Word: quarterbacks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...tall, crew-cut young man lifted a Maccabi beer bottle and bragged like a high school quarterback after a perfect touchdown pass. His friends sat around him, munching falafel at a simple restaurant in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Their faces shone with admiration. The braggart pointed to his M-16A3. On the barrel of the assault rifle, with its special adjustments for use by a sniper, was a 2-in. silver cross etched into the black metal. "I got my first kill, and my commander put this on the gun for me," said the 20-year...
...will be joined by fellow offensive lineman Korey Stringer as a reserve on this year's NFC team. Birk will be hiking the pigskin to a familiar figure if he receives playing time with the first string, as Viking teammate Daunte Culpepper was picked as the NFC's starting quarterback...
...Robert Smith, and had as good a chance as any other team to get to the next Super Bowl. Just adjust the dials a bit, right? Not by Green's logic. He went for a thorough overhaul. Dispense with the veteran leadership of Jeff George and Randall Cunningham at quarterback, and give the ball to a second-year guy who had never thrown a pass in the NFL. Brass does not do Green justice...
Culpepper is revolutionizing the quarterback position with his simple being. He is huge. Capital letters HUGE--6-ft. 4-in. huge. Two hundred and sixty pounds huge. He flattens defenders, stiff-arms tacklers and dwarfs his own offensive linemen in the huddle. He makes kickers look like hors d'oeuvres. Some historical perspective? Culpepper has the exact physical measurements of Deacon Jones, the Hall of Fame defensive lineman who terrorized puny quarterbacks with his speed and size. Culpepper could settle that score...
Culpepper can heave a football 80 yds., run a 40-yd. dash in a halfback-like 4.42 sec. and jump 36 in. from a standing start. Even more impressive, according to Tarkenton, the last great Vikings quarterback, is Culpepper's poise. "A QB can have skills and he can run, but he's got to be able to make plays," says Tarkenton. "What this young man does is make plays for his football team." As in Culpepper's first-ever start, when, realizing that the Chicago Bears were lying back and waiting for him to make passing mistakes, Culpepper tucked...