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Big D

By Tim Keown
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Like all good stories, this one begins with faith. There are believers and nonbelievers, seers and skeptics. The believers told of a 255-pound quarterback who could throw it 80 yards on the fly, run past cornerbacks and run over linebackers. The nonbelievers thought they smelled a fable -- even the quarterback's name, Daunte Culpepper, has a fabulist ring to it. The skeptics couldn't bend their minds around the concept of so much size and so much speed and so much ... everything. The mind has l ...

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