[Ads-l] Ball-handling? and a QOTY?

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 3, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
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> According to Dave "this really happened" Barry, in January 2015 Bill Belichick, coach of the about-to-be NFL champion New England Patriots, said "I've handled dozens of balls over the past week".  Did no-one eat lunch off this at the time (I mean scatologically rather than footballwise)?  Or did I just miss it all?

Yes, indeed there was snickering.
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> And I nominate this as most-easy-to-misunderstand QOTY.
> 
> Joel
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