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Speed will rule the NFL

By Hunter S. Thompson
Page 2 columnist

Monday, August 25, 2003

The NFL season is creeping along to a violent official start now, and I am starting to feel cranked up again. The summer has been strange and quick, as it usually is when you are 8,000 feet up in the mountains. Between getting married and having half my spine replaced, there has not been a lot of leisure time for healing other people's puncture wounds. The world of sports has many of them. But so what? Puncture wounds come with the territory in this business. Look at Mike Vick. Look at the At ...

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