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>> Another great story from the New York Times Magazine. This week we learn about the NFL's compulsory symposium that basically tells the hulks how to get through their stint as professional football players without embarrassing the league. Try not to read a story with this lead:

The bananas are distributed first. Young women from the league office tote them on their hips in big wicker baskets. Then come the condoms, in smaller baskets. Given the sheer plenitude and the wicker, the enterprise almost has the feel of a summer-camp picnic. One banana and one condom for every young man in the hotel ballroom, 262 of them, the entire rookie draft class of the National Football League. Then the woman onstage, a grandmotherly dynamo named Sandra McDonald, commands the rookies to practice technique. The condom is a condom, and the banana is....

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posted by Bryan at 8:33 PM