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This is a family blog, so I’m not going to quote my favorite passage from this NYPost review of Boys Will be Boys<\/a>, Jeff Pearlman’s history of the Dallas Cowboys of the early ’90s. But you really need to read it, regardless of whether you like football. Trust me; you’ll laugh in shock when you get to That Paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a family blog, so I’m not going to quote my favorite passage from this NYPost review of Boys Will be Boys, Jeff Pearlman’s history of the Dallas Cowboys of the early ’90s. But you really need to read it, regardless of whether you like football. Trust me; you’ll laugh in shock when you … <\/p>\n

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