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NFL teams hope for a calm break

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, June 26, 2009

Almost 150 years before George Halas sat on the running board of a well-appointed Hupmobile in a Canton, Ohio, automobile showroom in 1920 and launched what would become the NFL, Thomas Paine wrote these now-famous words: These are the times that try men's souls. With his series of "The American Crisis" pamphlets, Paine issued a revolutionary call to arms, clearly not a warning about the NFL's early-summer dog days. But as far as league coaches and management officials are concerned, ...

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