[Ads-l] matriculated

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 9:11 AM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

> On Sunday's Fox Sports telecast of the Philadelphia Eagles game, an Eagles
> player broke a tackle near the sideline and continued running for a
> respectable distance.  The sportscaster said that the Eagle "matriculated
> in the sidelines".  Hard to day what word the sportscaster was thinking
> of.  "Trickled"?  But a football player breaking tackles and running full
> speed can hardly be said to have "trickled".


Probably an oblique reference to the famous line by Kansas City Chiefs
coach Hank Stram, "Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys."

Heard at 1:30 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeWMOZzzhU

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