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/  All he did was take the ball and run every time they called his number -- which came to be more    \
| and more often, and in the Super Bowl Thomas was the whole show. But the season is now over; the    |
| purse is safe in the vault; and Duane Thomas is facing two to twenty for possession. Nobody really  |
| expects him to serve time, but nobody seems to think he'll be playing for Dallas next year either,  |
| and a few sporting people who claim to know how the NFL works say he won't be playing for ANYBODY   |
| next year; that the Commissioner is outraged at this mockery of all those Government-sponsored      |
| "Beware of Dope" TV shots that dressed up the screen last autumn.                                   |
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| We all enjoyed those spots, but not everyone found them convincing. Here was a White House          |
| directive saying several million dollars would be spent to drill dozens of Name Players to stare at |
| the camera and try to stop grinding their teeth long enough to say they hate drugs of any kind...   |
| and then the best running back in the world turns out to be a goddamn uncontrollable drugsucker.    |
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| But not for long. There is not much room for freaks in the National Football League. Joe Namath was |
| saved by the simple blind luck of getting drafted by a team in New York City, a place where social  |
| outlaws are not always viewed as criminals. But Namath would have had a very different trip if he'd |
| been drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals.                                                            |
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\ -- Hunter S. Thompson                                                                               /
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