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Article: Back in Locker Room, Echoes of the Cave
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 30, 1990
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During rehearsals for Super Bowls, where the press corps outgrew
the locker rooms long ago, players and reporters meet en masse in the
ballrooms of the athletes' hotels. Each 49er or Bronco occupies his
own stand, and every year a remarkable transformation takes place.
Decorum breaks out. Not just good manners, but a consideration
of grace, something close to courtliness, overtakes both sides.
Maybe it has to do with the linen and the lace, but the same man who
would scratch himself in the locker room introduces himself at the
table.
Player or writer, oafs still say oafish things now and then.
"Jim, let me get this straight," a New Jersey columnist began the
questioning of quarterback Jim ...