"Another Sports Meta" by Abide

Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
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SSSports? What sports?
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Sssolved! No google or nudges needed. It was indeed smooth sailing! Thanks, Peter!
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Sssolved! Thanks for a fun puzzle, Peter!
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SSSolved! No spoilers needed here.
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Sssolved without spoilers, but I did need to Google!
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SSSailed into port, pleasant morning romp. Thanks Peter!
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Another Monday sssolver here, fun one Peter. Thanks!
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Thanks Peter. Needed an easy one to recharge the mental batteries.
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Looks like a lot of sports fans in our group
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So far we have a Butkus number of solvers. Go Team Muggles!
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lol fancy that I know something about sports, but still needed the third nudge due to other knowledge deficiencies. :)
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ajk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:04 am still needed the third nudge
I should have included animal 🧬 DNA 😜
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Abide wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:35 pm Here are some nudges for people that don't know anything about sports:
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This movie is not as well-watched or quite the quotable classic among the the 40 and under as we might assume.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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woozy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:56 am

This movie is not as well-watched or quite the quotable classic among the the 40 and under as we might assume.
Having three daughters under age 40, I would disagree. I looked for some source material or link that would support your proposition, and came up Butkus.
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Abide wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:28 pm
woozy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:56 am

This movie is not as well-watched or quite the quotable classic among the the 40 and under as we might assume.
Having three daughters under age 40, I would disagree. I looked for some source material or link that would support your proposition, and came up Butkus.
It's anecdotal. I have a group of friends born around 89 to 93 or so that I hang out with and play trivia with. The overall expectation of what is and is not common knowledge varies significantly. They all know of the movie but only 85% of them have seen it and most of them haven't seen it more than three times (unheard of too me). They think its amazing that I know the names of all the actors and that given a line of dialog I can identify the context. Meanwhile they assume everyone can name everything there is about The Goonies.

But to your point.... I thought I had written "might not be" rather than "is not". That's pretty important. Or, maybe I meant "is not quite the". I think those would make a huge difference in the intention of my statement.
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We are up to Jack Ham (#59), which pairs nicely with the Easter ham.

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Abide wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:30 pm We are up to Jack Ham (#59)...
Jack Ham.jpg
One of my all-time favorites! Jack was born in Johnstown, PA, and played linebacker for Penn State and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Answer : The Wizard of Oz

Winner from 61 entries: AFK

Original puzzle (New York Sun, circa 2003)

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