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Away Games

By David Fleming

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Seated in a black leather chair in his spacious office, Brian Billick is deep into a second hour of ruminating on a single topic: the bizarre culture of NFL coaches and the havoc their high-profile, high-pressure jobs can wreak on their families. After earnest and exhaustive attempts to make sense of it all, Billick walks to the wood bookshelf behind his desk. He grabs the Ravens' six-inch-thick playbook and drops it onto a marble coffee table, producing a startling thud. "Ridiculous," he says ...

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