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As The Greatest Generation of sportswriters continues to lament the advent of sports bloggers, those unschooled nihilists who care not a whit for the word-smithing craft, I've often wondered exactly which Hemingways and Dostoevskys these sports bloggers are up against. Thus, I introduce a feature that will be repeated as often as I remember to repeat it: Today in Great Sportswriting, featuring ...
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D+arrel Green
Published 5/12/2008 by Skin Patrol at Hogs Haven: Front Page Posts
... What in the word-smithery is a D-Plus? Even if interpreted in the author's favor, he's still only two grades removed from the wrongest possible post-draft grading in history. Darrell Green, first ballot HoFer and perhaps greatest defensive back in the game's history, unquestionably represents an A+ if that grade should ever be applied. You simply can't succeed on draft day much more than the 'Skins did with Green. And lest you think Gary was just following the conventional wisdom, FO has others who were a bit savvier on the pick: ...
