[Ads-l] matriculated

[Laurence Horn]

Transparent to me; that Stram comment is a chestnut on NFL Films productions.

> On Oct 24, 2018, at 12:35 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> It might be famous with devoted fans, but as James said, it's otherwise
> opaque.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:38 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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