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  2. Penalty flag - Wikipedia

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    Officials point at a penalty flag lying on the field. The penalty flag (or just "flag"), often called a penalty marker (or just "marker"), is a yellow cloth used in several field sports including American football, Canadian football, and lacrosse by game officials to identify and sometimes mark the location of penalties or infractions that occur during regular play.

  3. List of North American football nicknames - Wikipedia

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    By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]

  4. Pro Football Hall of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.Opened on September 7, 1963, [1] the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coaches, officials, franchise owners, and front-office personnel, almost all of whom made their primary contributions to the game in the National ...

  5. List of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The Pro Football Hall of Fame includes players, coaches, and contributors (e.g., owners, general managers and team or league officials or other non-players) who have "made outstanding contributions to professional football". The charter class of seventeen was selected in 1963.

  6. Ed "Too Tall" Jones - Wikipedia

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    Edward Lee Jones (born February 23, 1951), commonly known as Ed "Too Tall" Jones due to his height, is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 15 seasons (1974–1978, 1980–1989) for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL). In 1979, he left football to attempt a career in professional ...

  7. “Bald-Faced” or “Bold-Faced”: Which Is Correct?

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    What does “bald-faced liemean? Interestingly, this phrase was born out of a slightly different one: “bare-faced lie.” And, yes, both expressions refer, figuratively, to hairlessness.

  8. NFL preseason - Wikipedia

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    The Hall of Fame game served as a kickoff to the 2009 season, which would have been the 50th season of play for the AFL had it survived as an independent entity. The 2011 (canceled), 2012, and 2016 (canceled) games were between two NFC teams. Normally, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game has an AFC and NFC matchup, but that is not always the case.

  9. What does it mean to be a college football blue blood?

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    Blue blood programs are typically not lacking in resources, and their fans really love football. They pack stadiums and generate revenue. People buy in to them, especially boosters.