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  • It's like a football player gets the ball down to the fifteen-yard line, and then I run it into the end zone--that's basically how we work.

    Mike Ragogna: 2120 South Michigan Avenue: Chatting With George Thorogood Mike Ragogna 2011

  • It's like a football player gets the ball down to the fifteen-yard line, and then I run it into the end zone--that's basically how we work.

    Mike Ragogna: 2120 South Michigan Avenue: Chatting With George Thorogood Mike Ragogna 2011

  • We sacked Torretta six times and forced him to throw two interceptions inside our fifteen-yard line.

    Called to Coach Bobby Bowden 2010

  • Then he took off his helmet and flung it to the ground—and that drew an immediate fifteen-yard penalty from the refs for unsportsmanlike conduct!

    Red Zone Tiki Barber 2010

  • Then he took off his helmet and flung it to the ground—and that drew an immediate fifteen-yard penalty from the refs for unsportsmanlike conduct!

    Red Zone Tiki Barber 2010

  • Charlie was sensational running our two-minute offense, and we were helped by two fifteen-yard penalties against the Cornhuskers.

    Called to Coach Bobby Bowden 2010

  • Then he took off his helmet and flung it to the ground—and that drew an immediate fifteen-yard penalty from the refs for unsportsmanlike conduct!

    Red Zone Tiki Barber 2010

  • Penalties: Two encroachments on Fred Robbins, one on Barry Cofield, and two important fifteen-yard personal fouls on kickoffs that put the defense even more on its heels than it already had been.

    Greg Hanlon: Bad Day at the Office, or Alarming Loss? Saints 48 - Giants 27 2009

  • At that point, Coughlin should have shown the idiot to the bench and sat him down for the rest of the game ... but no, he keeps him in, and sure enough, a couple quarters later, Whitfield gets ANOTHER costly fifteen-yard penalty.

    New York, New York grrm 2006

  • In that game, the Patriots broke a 14–14 fourth-quarter tie with a long punt return by Joe McKnight, then a fifteen-yard quarterback sneak for a touchdown by Johnnie Thiel, who played brilliantly and was named the Most Outstanding Player.

    Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007

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