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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quarterback .
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Examples
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Yeah, I can see how the word "quarterbacked" may have indicated something more in 2008 than it actually was.
unknown title 2009
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He largely quarterbacked the secondary, relaying the sideline calls to his back-end teammates.
Gauging the Leonhard Effect Chris Herring 2011
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McNabb, 33, quarterbacked the team to four consecutive NFC championship games from '01-'04, plus an additional conference title game in' 08.
3 Super Bowls lift Tom Brady past Manning as QB of decade 2010
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ABC's Bob Griese, who initially didn't call his son Brian's Michigan football games, was teary as Brian quarterbacked his team to a 1998 Rose Bowl win.
Don't expect a neutral voice from Jeff Van Gundy during NBA Finals 2009
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Instead, he says he'll call a variation of similar plays he quarterbacked at Domino's and other stops in his corporate career: Meet your teammates.
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To make the situation even more unusual, Wilson isn't pursuing an undergraduate degree at Wisconsin: He already has one from North Carolina State, the school whose football team he quarterbacked last season.
How Wisconsin Imported a Quarterback Ben Cohen 2011
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The Jets not only successfully backed up quarterback Joe Namath's guarantee of victory against the powerhouse Colts — whose 13-1 regular-season record had them mentioned as an all-time NFL team before Super Bowl III — but New York also accomplished it with surprising authority, defeating an 18½-point favorite coached by Don Shula and quarterbacked by 1968 NFL MVP Earl Morrall.
AFL memories: Broadway Joe etched league's place in lore 2009
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He quarterbacked one of the three best power plays in all of junior hockey, and plays a crisp, keenly efficient game in his own end, rarely making mistakes.
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I will be rooting hard for the Jets; not because they are my favorite author's team (by my calculations GRRM's significant shadow only buys them a +2.6% interest increase on my part) ... but they don't need the extra motivation on my part when playing any team quarterbacked by Cry Me A Rivers, the worst sore loser (and the worst sore winner) I think I've ever seen in professional sports.
Sunday, Sunday grrm 2010
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It features Tim Tebow, who quarterbacked Florida to two college football titles and won the Heisman Trophy and now becomes the rare athlete who goes anywhere near associating with a controversial issue outside sports.
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