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Article: Sports writers buy into Vermeil's hype. (Rams' coach Dick Vermeil)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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A recent caveat came down from the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, forbidding the sports department from using puns in headlines.
Will a ban on hyperbole be next?
I hope not, because Bernie Miklasz would never be able to write another story on the National Football League draft. Miklasz is a nice man and a good writer, but he watches the Rams draft with the same rose-colored glasses as Coach Dick Vermeil. He hugs them and professes his love for them, even exceeding the usual prerequisites of a home-town journalist, and his love is constant, right up until the day they're arrested or released when, in a Post tradition that dates even before Dick Allen, ...