For many small, regional colleges facing a bleak admissions landscape, the gridiron is a beacon of hope. From Wordnik.com. [Small colleges find that adding football pays off in a lot of green, and more] Reference
Ohio State and Michigan's battles on the gridiron are a part of college football lore. From Wordnik.com. [Scout.com > SuperPrep.com] Reference
She is just a "girl," as a gridiron is a gridiron, an article bought for the convenience of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future] Reference
Whether he decides to return to the gridiron is a decision his family will make together after the conclusion of the basketball season. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Boise coach, Chris Petersen, is my kind of gridiron professor. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Marino: Boise State and Post-Traumatic Field Goal Syndrome] Reference
At each end of this "gridiron" two tall posts were erected five or six feet apart. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
I imagine that the thigh bones made a kind of gridiron, while at the same time the marrow inside them got cooked. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
"The boys who like to call the gridiron shots at Virginia Tech aren't fretting much about football prospects for next fall. From Wordnik.com. [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference
(I bet regular PopWatch readers never thought they'd live to see the day where I used "gridiron" and "pigskin" in the same sentence.). From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
There is no single lesson that covers all gridiron circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Belichick's Boldness Belies His Blather] Reference
It was all a joke then, all part of being a tough guy on the gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Easier For Some Athletes To Suffer Brain Damage?] Reference
Knapp, in order to escape all opponents, now skirted the edge of the gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
We'll discuss how clashes on the battlefield compare to those on the gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Middle East Leaders In Washington For Peace Talks] Reference
Yet we bonded, at least in a fashion, over our mutual affection for the gridiron wars. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Owning the Season] Reference
And if the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the flour shall be tempered with oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
This talk is good news for the expansion Texans -- gardening may distract people from the gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Football: What Lovely Pansies!] Reference
The appearance of Judd and Cateye upon the gridiron that afternoon was the signal for a great ovation. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Put them on the gridiron, stem side down, over a bright but not very hot fire, and cook for three minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
Freed from the need to sell tickets, the TV show doesn't have to swell to a crowd-pleasing gridiron drive. From Wordnik.com. [Why Tv Is Better Than The Movies] Reference
He was the crudest, awkwardest, greenest candidate that had ever put in appearance on the Trumbull gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Outside the gate to the gridiron at one o'clock a great throng of football enthusiasts clamored for entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
His business smarts have proved remarkably transferable from the world of spiked heels to that of gridiron spikes. From Wordnik.com. [A Shoe Mogul Scores Big] Reference
Be it mine to lay these spare-ribs athwart no gridiron more fervid than the pavement of his own monumental Escurial. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
In those years, the small and obscure Pennsylvania school began to engage all the Ivy football powers on the gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Playing for Keeps] Reference
A tremendous roar swept across the field as the two teams trotted upon the gridiron for the beginning of the second half. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Brown was an undersized linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers in the 1950s who was a one-man wrecking crew on the gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [The hardest hitters in football] Reference
SCRAMBLING UP THE LADDERFrom the gridiron to Congress to President Bush's cabinet, Kemp is used to making bold, flashy moves. From Wordnik.com. [Throwing Long] Reference
Butter some zepherettes and sprinkle thickly with grated Parmesan cheese, bake in a quick oven, or toast on a gridiron; serve hot. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
While the gridiron globe has turned on the NFC's San Francisco/Dallas axis, the "other" conference has enjoyed a quiet transition. From Wordnik.com. [Duck, Blitzburgh's Back] Reference
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