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[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

New to me.  The earliest I find it is from a wire service feed:

McClatchy - Tribune News Service; 18 Sep 2009 (from Proquest)
"If he does more of the same Saturday away from home -- and if Cal puts another fifty-burger on the scoreboard -- then it's on."

Here it is from a Washington Post blog:
" But after serving up a fiftyburger to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night, Stephen Curry seemed surprised and chilled when Draymond Green sneaked up behind him for the celebratory dousing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/02/04/stephen-curry-gets-a-water-bath-draymond-green-makes-photobomb-magic/?utm_term=.d64538ea29c3


_Chicago Tribune_ 15 Nov 2016: p. 2. 
" Trestman pretty much doomed himself when his team gave up a fiftyburger to the Patriots, then got a week off to regroup and came out of it by allowing the Packers to pound them with another fiftyburger."

In all three of these, it refers to fifty points, rather than the fifty yard line.

 
> 
> I was listening to a radio show about football on 610 AM (I believe the call letters are WTEL) from Philadelphia this afternoon.  The show
> kept identifying itself as "ESPN radio" and if it gave call letters I did not catch them (I was driving in the rain and had poor AM reception on
> my car radio).  There were at least two men and one woman talking; if I heard correctly one of them was named "Doug Brown".  I do not
> know if the show originated in Philadelphia or was originated by ESPN for national distribution.
> 
> Several times the announcers referred to a football fifty-plus yard field goal as a "fiftyburger".  I think there was also a reference to a
> "fortyburger".
> 
> This is a new term to me.  Is anyone else familiar with it?
> 
>  - Jim Landau
> 

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