By Tim Keown
Page 2 columnist

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

"I'm tired of the field-goal team marching out onto the field to kick a field goal." -- Herman Edwards Hero is a dangerous word. Use it too often, even in relevant situations, and it loses its meaning. Throw it around the sports landscape too freely and you've got a double problem: meaninglessness and absurdity. But every so often, we can trot out the word with the sureness of the newly-cowed Rich Gannon going down in the pocket. We can look at the 49ers and see how their four scoring drives ...

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