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  • We often attribute supernatural origins to football success, from Roger Staubach's 1975 "Hail Mary" pass to Franco Harris's "Immaculate Reception" in 1972, and we enshrine plays with names like the "Holy Roller" in 1978 and the "Music City Miracle" in 2000.

    Does God Care Who Wins Football Games? Fran Tarkenton 2012

  • This refers to George W. Bush's friend Roger Staubach's consulting firm helping EADS select Alabama for an assembly site since it had "strong Republican representation."

    There's More to the Tanker Contract Than Meets the Eye 2010

  • The Navy veteran, who served in Vietnam, actually arrived in the D.C. area early in the Gibbs Era as a Cowboys fan, due to Roger Staubach's Naval connections.

    Goodbye to GrandPa Hogette 2010

  • The quintessentially Catholic prayer is so apt a description of quarterback Roger Staubach's impossible 1975 game-winning bomb that "Hail Mary" has since become a catchall term to describe final acts of desperation off the field.

    Chris Korzen: For the Culture War, a Hail Mary 2009

  • For the Cowboys, their failure in SB-V opened the door for Roger Staubach's run to the Hall of Fame and four more Super Bowl appearances in '70s ... becoming -- aargh!!!

    Is That Legal?: January 2007 Archives 2007

  • For the Cowboys, their failure in SB-V opened the door for Roger Staubach's run to the Hall of Fame and four more Super Bowl appearances in '70s ... becoming -- aargh!!!

    Is That Legal?: Colts Return to Miami . . . Scene of Super Bowls Past 2007

  • The transaction does not include Staubach Retail Services or Cypress, Staubach's investment development business, both of which will continue to operate under license agreements.

    Staubach to be Bought 2008

  • "I don't think anyone who saw it will deny that Roger Staubach's '63 victory over the Golden Domers was inspiring, but I'd bet any money that at the time the Pentagon would've traded it for a victory in Vietnam."

    Satire: U.S. Military Wasting All Its Victories On Notre Dame William Harryman 2007

  • Staubach's voice, as she said this, was tremulous with the excess of her eagerness.

    Linda Tressel Anthony Trollope 1848

  • When Peter entered Madame Staubach's parlour he was again dressed in his Sunday best, as he had been when he made his first overture to

    Linda Tressel Anthony Trollope 1848

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