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Combine is a metaphor of NFL life

By Patrick Hruby
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Say this for live televised coverage of the NFL draft scouting combine: In terms of hard-hitting football action, it really makes you appreciate the Pro Bowl. Guys standing around in their underwear. Guys standing around in sweatshirts. Guys standing around the RCA Dome's turf field, thumbing their iPods. Guys standing in front of logo-festooned podium banners, fiddling with microphones. After watching 10 hours of the NFL Network's combine coverage -- six of them live, four of them taped -- on ...

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