"A tie is like kissing your sister" (1954 first kiss?)

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   This continues an archived discussion of the American football proverb "a
tie is like kissing your sister."  Full text of the NEW YORK TIMES was very
helpful.

13 January 1954, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 34:
   "'What is the coach's emotional reaction to a tie ball game,' he says.  I
answer without thinking.  'It's like kissing your sister,' I say.  After a
while I get a bit proud of that crack.  But then I see it in print and it
doesn't look as gay, as flippant or as innocent as I meant it to be.  Then
I'm flooded with letters and protests until I now wonder what constitutes a
quotable quote."

26 November 1954, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 37:
   "It's like kissing your sister," said whimsical Eddie, phrasemaker
extraordinary.

(Eddie Erdelatz, football coach of Navy--ed.)