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A football helmet gives you an awful lot of protection, ... but you don't have to be a doctor or an engineer or even a football player to realize that the helmet does not block out all the measured force produced when some 300-pound player with a hand the size of a Christmas ham whacks you in the head dozens of times a game, season after season.

Cyril Wecht

We got a couple of whacks on the nose early in the season to wake us up a bit and show us we had to work a bit harder. Now we're looking up to the teams above us, not down to the ones below.

Tony Rea

It would be very disappointed if tummy taps or whacks in the guts prevented players from playing in grand finals.

Grant Thomas

We think we're at a reasonable level at this point. We don't have any explosive plan to go out and hack away. We've taken a lot of whacks at that. Right now we're looking to get stability -- stability in our product cycle, stability in our manpower, stability in our plant situation.

Jim Padilla

It was more of a blur than anything, ... I just had a couple whacks at it and when it went in it was just excitement. It was an unbelievable feeling.

Zach Parise