| 00:00:04 | Football.
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| 00:00:06 | Football.
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| 00:00:07 | My son. my boy.
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| 00:00:10 | In the stands:
"
"
"see the one running down the field for the
touchdown
"with the name huxtable on the back?
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| 00:00:23 | "That's my son.
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| 00:00:24 | "I would have done it myself, but I'm too
old now
"
huxtable and son.
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| 00:00:32 | Yes, indeed.
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| 00:00:34 | Go to dinners:
"And the athlete of the century: young huxtable.
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| 00:00:39 | "Sitting next to him was the athlete of the
old century
"
my son.
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| 00:00:47 | I'm telling you, my prayers have been answered
and the circle will not be br.
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| 00:00:59 | This may be impossible
but do you think you can calm down?
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| 00:01:05 | Calm? sure. perfectly calm.
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| 00:01:09 | Cliff, your eyes are dancing.
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| 00:01:13 | Are they?
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| 00:01:14 | Mm-hmm.
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| 00:01:15 | Let me see.
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| 00:01:19 | They are.
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| 00:01:21 | Yes, they are.
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| 00:01:22 | They are dancing!
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| 00:01:24 | Sit down.
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| 00:01:26 | No. do me a favor.
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| 00:01:27 | Say it again.
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| 00:01:28 | I want to see them dance.
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| 00:01:30 | Say it!
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| 00:01:32 | Football.
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| 00:01:33 | There they go!
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| 00:01:42 | Okay, now, who is this?
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| 00:01:45 | You. again.
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| 00:01:46 | Well, at least you could look
you know.
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| 00:01:51 | Here we go: the groverton game. 1958.
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| 00:01:55 | Backfield of harry jefferson
don consul, toby wilson and me.
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| 00:02:01 | We are down by six points.
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| 00:02:03 | 800,000 People in the stands.
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| 00:02:07 | Three seconds left to go.
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| 00:02:09 | Our ball on their two yard line.
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| 00:02:12 | Andwho did they go to?
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| 00:02:16 | Toby wilson.
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| 00:02:18 | Right! and we lost!
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| 00:02:22 | Should have gone to you.
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| 00:02:24 | That's right.
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| 00:02:25 | When we went to the class reunion
people didn't say
"
first thing out of their mouths was
"
for the past two hours
it's been football nonstop.
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| 00:02:41 | Theo's half mine.
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| 00:02:42 | I might have plans for him.
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| 00:02:44 | Like what?
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| 00:02:45 | Like follow inmyfootsteps and become a lawyer.
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| 00:02:49 | No better way to prepare for law than football.
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| 00:02:54 | Wait a minute. time out.
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| 00:02:56 | What I'm saying is like me in med school.
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| 00:03:00 | Now, final exams
people are running
up and down the hallway
jumping out of windows, setting themselves
on fire
"oh, my goodness, I don't know what I'm going
"
me, I'm dancing in the hallways
saying, "pour it on. give me tougher exams.
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| 00:03:18 | "
people said
"
"
"
"
I read an article about teenage boys and
football.
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| 00:03:33 | Know what they said their biggest problem
is?
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| 00:03:36 | Naughty cheerleaders on the bus.
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| 00:03:40 | No.
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| 00:03:42 | Fathers.
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| 00:03:42 | Look, I am not going to put pressure on the
boy.
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| 00:03:47 | If he's good, great.
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| 00:03:50 | ..
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| 00:03:53 | But if he quits, he's dead.
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| 00:03:57 | Dad.
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| 00:03:58 | My boy.
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| 00:03:59 | Can you give me some football pointers?
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| 00:04:02 | ..
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| 00:04:07 | Cliff.
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| 00:04:07 | Of course, it's been a long time.
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| 00:04:10 | After dinner.
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| 00:04:11 | ...About the game of football.
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| 00:04:14 | Is rudy coming?
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| 00:04:16 | I haven't seen her.
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| 00:04:17 | I forgot. I left her up in the room.
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| 00:04:25 | Huh?
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| 00:04:27 | Ready! thirty-five! hut!
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| 00:04:28 | Play!
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| 00:04:36 | Cliff: What do you mean, I forgot about you?
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| 00:04:39 | It's only been a few hours.
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| 00:04:42 | Nobody likes me.
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| 00:04:43 | Are you kidding?
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| 00:04:44 | Everybody's waiting for you.
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| 00:04:46 | Vanessa refused to eat until you showed up.
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| 00:04:49 | Great dinner, mom.
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| 00:04:51 | It was delicious.
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| 00:04:52 | All right, then just the two of us
will sit down and have a lovely dinner.
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| 00:04:58 | I don't eat with fibbers!
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| 00:05:02 | Well, the fibber will just have to eat alone.
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| 00:08:12 | bodies
care,
pediatricians trustchildren's tylenol.
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| 00:08:17 | To help their fevers, aches and pains feel
better.
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| 00:09:26 | Are you really going to wear that?
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| 00:09:28 | This is areal football uniform--
the kind that men wore.
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| 00:09:36 | This is all the protection we needed.
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| 00:09:40 | Tell him how you were carriedoff the field.
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| 00:09:44 | Only to get your attention.
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| 00:09:48 | My boy, you are about to become a part
of the huxtable tradition.
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| 00:09:54 | Starting with your great-great- grandfather--
general theo huxtable.
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| 00:10:00 | My great-great-grandfather was a general?
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| 00:10:04 | No, that was his nickname.
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| 00:10:07 | General?
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| 00:10:08 | He gave it to himself because he was a big
man
and a man that size
when he said, "call me general" everybody
said okay.
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| 00:10:18 | So here we go.
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| 00:10:19 | Hey, that's real interesting.
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| 00:10:21 | Tell me more.
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| 00:10:23 | No, we don't have time.
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| 00:10:25 | We have to get out there.
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| 00:10:27 | Here we go!
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| 00:10:29 | Hut two!
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| 00:10:30 | No, don't rub it.
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| 00:10:32 | That's the calcium deposit building up.
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| 00:10:35 | Play ball!
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| 00:10:36 | Hut! hut! hut!
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| 00:10:39 | (groan)
Move the feet! move the feet!
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| 00:10:42 | General, I'm sending you one.
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| 00:10:47 | Rudy?
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| 00:10:51 | Rudy, please talk to me.
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| 00:10:54 | I could come in, if you like.
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| 00:11:08 | Hi.
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| 00:11:11 | You know, rudy, you've really got it rough.
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| 00:11:14 | You're the youngest in the family
and nobody wants to play with you.
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| 00:11:20 | They tease you.
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| 00:11:22 | You wonder if there's anything worse than
being five.
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| 00:11:25 | There is--
four.
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| 00:11:28 | Five is better than four?
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| 00:11:30 | Yes. they're babies.
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| 00:11:32 | So be proud of being five--
"
think of all the things five-year-olds can
do.
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| 00:11:40 | You can tie your own shoelaces.
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| 00:11:43 | ..
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| 00:11:45 | Go to kindergarten.
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| 00:11:47 | Last year you couldn't do that.
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| 00:11:49 | Because I was nothing.
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| 00:11:52 | No, you were never nothing.
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| 00:11:55 | You just weren't five.
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| 00:11:56 | I'm five now.
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| 00:11:57 | And you can do things you couldn't do before.
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| 00:12:01 | What about that?
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| 00:12:03 | Yay, five.
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| 00:12:06 | Yay, five.
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| 00:12:08 | Mommy, how old are you?
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| 00:12:11 | Old.
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| 00:12:12 | Yay, old.
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| 00:12:22 | All right, just remember--
keep your center of gravity low
shoulders square.
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| 00:12:28 | Got it, dad. you've got it.
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| 00:12:30 | Take a shower.
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| 00:12:33 | Dad, you really showed me a lot out there.
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| 00:12:36 | You've got some great moves for a guy your
age.
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| 00:12:40 | I figure I won't completely fall apart
until next week sometime.
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| 00:12:49 | How does he look?
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| 00:12:55 | Cliff, your eyes.
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| 00:12:57 | I don't think they're going to dance for
a while.
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| 00:13:03 | Tell me about it.
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| 00:13:04 | I went out there with no preconceived ideas.
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| 00:13:09 | Do you understand?
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| 00:13:11 | I just wanted to see what the boy has.
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| 00:13:15 | The boy has nothing.
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| 00:13:20 | He made the team.
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| 00:13:21 | There are 45 people on the football team.
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| 00:13:25 | Only 22 of them get to play.
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| 00:13:27 | The other 23 are to keep the bench from flying
up in the air
when the real players go out there.
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| 00:13:35 | Start from the beginning.
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| 00:13:37 | We get out to the field.
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| 00:13:39 | The boy snatches the ball from me
runs down to the end zone, spikes the ball
and then starts to do some kind of dance.
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| 00:13:50 | For 20 minutes he danced.
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| 00:13:52 | I thought rain was going to fall.
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| 00:13:56 | Then the boy comes running back
and says to me, "how do you like my dance
"
"
the boy is not going to score.
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| 00:14:13 | He must have some skills.
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| 00:14:15 | I threw the ball to him, he caught it.
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| 00:14:20 | There you go.
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| 00:14:20 | No-- I said, "son, it's better
"
okay, so he's not a receiver.
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| 00:14:29 | "
he took the ball, kicked it.
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| 00:14:33 | The ball went backwards.
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| 00:14:36 | In order for him to kick in the game
they center the ball to him, he catches it
turns around, thenhe kicks the ball.
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| 00:14:49 | I see you shaking your head, saying "football
"
you're not one?
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| 00:14:55 | No.
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| 00:14:55 | A-ha.
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| 00:14:56 | A-ha what?
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| 00:14:57 | The first sign of being one is denial.
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| 00:15:01 | I know what a football father is.
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| 00:15:04 | I'm telling you that right now theo is terrible.
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| 00:15:09 | He's 13, and if you tell him that, it will
destroy him.
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| 00:15:14 | I didn't tell him.
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| 00:15:17 | I'm tellingyou.
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| 00:15:20 | Is he really that bad?
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| 00:15:23 | Worse.
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| 00:15:26 | Dad?
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| 00:15:27 | Yes, theo, my boy.
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| 00:15:31 | I've been thinking about the huxtable football
tradition.
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| 00:15:34 | Is there room in it for a guy who's not a
star?
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| 00:15:39 | Sure.
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| 00:15:40 | I might not get much playing time at all--
like maybe none.
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| 00:15:46 | Whatever you do, we'll be in the stands cheering
you on.
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| 00:15:51 | Thanks, mom.
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| 00:15:52 | You, too, dad?
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| 00:15:57 | What was the question?
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| 00:16:00 | Will you be cheering?
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| 00:16:01 | Oh, I'll have your mother on my shoulders.
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| 00:16:05 | I've got a lot to learn, huh?
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| 00:16:08 | Well, you know, you have your dance down
pat.
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| 00:16:13 | You've got that covered.
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| 00:16:14 | Now all you have to do is learn the skills
that will put you into the end zone
so you can do your wonderful dance.
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| 00:16:25 | That could take weeks.
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| 00:16:27 | Years.
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| 00:16:29 | !
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| 00:16:31 | Notrealyears.
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| 00:16:32 | I mean, you play in the fall only.
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| 00:16:37 | The question you have to ask yourself is
is it worth it?
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| 00:16:44 | I'm just happy to be on the team.
|
| 00:16:46 | Really?
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| 00:16:47 | When we're practicing, kids come around and
watch.
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| 00:16:50 | They can't come on the field because they're
not on the team.
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| 00:16:54 | I may never make first string, but I'm on
the field.
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| 00:17:02 | Okay.
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| 00:17:03 | But you better keep that bench from flying
up.
|
| 00:17:08 | What?
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| 00:17:09 | No, I'm dead serious.
|
| 00:17:10 | When that team runs out there
you let that bench fly up and hit somebody
in the head
..
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| 00:17:19 | Mom, what's he talking about?
|
| 00:17:21 | ..
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| 00:17:26 | ..
|
| 00:17:51 | There it is.
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| 00:17:52 | The groverton game.
|
| 00:17:54 | And I still cannot understand
why they didn't go to me.
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| 00:18:00 | I think I can.
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| 00:18:02 | You're kidding. why?
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| 00:18:03 | Five minutes left on the clock
and your team has the ball.
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| 00:18:08 | They hand it to someone who breaks through
the line.
|
| 00:18:12 | He gets hit.
|
| 00:18:13 | But that doesn't stop him
because he's got some moves.
|
| 00:18:18 | He's spinning by the tacklers, leaping over
the linebackers.
|
| 00:18:22 | I won't say who the someone is.
|
| 00:18:25 | No.
|
| 00:18:26 | But the someone is in this room.
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| 00:18:29 | In this room?
|
| 00:18:30 | Now, there is no one between the someone
and the goal line
and as he's racing down the field
he turns to look at his fiancee.
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| 00:18:40 | He holds the ball up and waves to her.
|
| 00:18:43 | What a man.
|
| 00:18:45 | As he brings the ball down, his knee comes
up
knocks the ball backwards
into the hands of the groverton tackler
who runs in the opposite direction and scores.
|
| 00:18:55 | Now, who did that?
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| 00:18:57 | Toby wilson.
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| 00:19:01 | He's not here.
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| 00:19:02 | Clair huxtable.
|
| 00:19:04 | No.
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| 00:19:04 | I was just trying to show you that I loved
you.
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| 00:19:09 | You were showing off.
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| 00:19:11 | It will be a cold day
..
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| 00:19:18 | Miss thing.
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| 00:26:17 | Back from shopping.
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| 00:26:19 | How was it?
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| 00:26:20 | Great-- only one fight.
|
| 00:26:21 | And we haven't finished fighting.
|
| 00:26:24 | What happened?
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| 00:26:25 | He said I couldn't go into bookman's.
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| 00:26:27 | Dad, bookman'sis a menswear store.
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| 00:26:30 | Menswear store-- no mothers allowed.
|
| 00:26:32 | She'd want to go in the dressing room with
me.
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| 00:26:37 | Hey, she goes in withme.
|
| 00:26:40 | Is this the shirt?
|
| 00:26:41 | Wait till you see it.
|
| 00:26:44 | Have you seen it?
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| 00:26:46 | Through the window.
|
| 00:26:47 | I felt funny charging it
but after I said I was your son
"
they love me.
|
| 00:26:54 | I make their clothes look good.
|
| 00:26:57 | Here it is.
|
| 00:26:58 | ..
|
| 00:26:58 | Ohh!
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| 00:27:03 | She'll die.
|
| 00:27:04 | Bookman's does it again.
|
| 00:27:06 | How much is it?
|
| 00:27:07 | See the label? gorden gartrell.
|
| 00:27:10 | This istheshirt.
|
| 00:27:12 | Gorden gartrell is a big designer.
|
| 00:27:14 | Check out these details--
..
|
| 00:27:18 | Two-tone pockets.
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| 00:27:19 | A work of art.
|
| 00:27:20 | How much?
|
| 00:27:21 | The real thrill is the fabric-- pure silk.
|
| 00:27:26 | Are your hands clean?
|
| 00:27:28 | Doctors' hands are always clean.
|
| 00:27:30 | Then why are they always washing them?
|
| 00:27:34 | How much?
|
| 00:27:36 | How much?
|
| 00:27:37 | !
|
| 00:27:39 | Dad, if you want quality, you have to pay
for it.
|
| 00:28:04 | 95 Dollars.
|
| 00:28:07 | There must be a pair of pants in there, too.
|
| 00:28:14 | 95 Dollars?
|
| 00:28:17 | The salesman said this will last a lifetime.
|
| 00:28:21 | If I live to be 90, that's about a dollar
a year.
|
| 00:28:27 | Theo, I don't have a $95 shirt, and I have
a job.
|
| 00:28:34 | Don't you want something better for your
son?
|
| 00:28:38 | Sure. want to trade your room for that shirt?
|
| 00:28:42 | No.
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| 00:28:43 | All right, then.
|
| 00:28:45 | The shirt goes back.
|
| 00:28:47 | Dad, I told christine
I was getting a gorden gartrell.
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| 00:28:51 | Tell christine you lied.
|
| 00:28:54 | ..
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| 00:28:56 | No 14-year-old boy should have a $95 shirt
unless he is on stage with his four brothers.
|
| 00:29:17 | I'll give you 30 dollars.
|
| 00:29:20 | !
|
| 00:29:21 | .. five!
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| 00:29:25 | For $30
I can't even get a gorden gartrell tie.
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| 00:29:30 | Are you a personal friend of this man?
|
| 00:29:35 | .. you take $30
and get yourself a nice $30 shirt.
|
| 00:29:41 | Could you make it $35?
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