"Another Sports Meta" by Abide

[Bird Lives]

SSSports? What sports?

[BarbaraK]

Sssolved! No google or nudges needed. It was indeed smooth sailing! Thanks, Peter!

[Jeremy Smith]

Sssolved! Thanks for a fun puzzle, Peter!

[Anita]

SSSolved! No spoilers needed here.

[Cinny]

Sssolved without spoilers, but I did need to Google!

[DrTom]

SSSailed into port, pleasant morning romp. Thanks Peter!

[rjy]

Another Monday sssolver here, fun one Peter. Thanks!

[sharkicicles]

Thanks Peter. Needed an easy one to recharge the mental batteries.

[Abide]

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!

[ajk]

lol fancy that I know something about sports, but still needed the third nudge due to other knowledge deficiencies.
Fun stuff, thanks.

[Abide]

still needed the third nudge

I should have included animal DNA

[woozy]

Here are some nudges for people that don't know anything about sports:

► Show Spoiler

Focus on the animals at the end of the theme entries

► Show Spoiler

Also look at the last Across entry

► Show Spoiler

Say the animals and the last entry successively in an excited fashion

► Show Spoiler

If you still need a nudge, metas may not be for you

This movie is not as well-watched or quite the quotable classic among the the 40 and under as we might assume.

[Abide]

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.

[woozy]

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.

[Abide]

We are up to Jack Ham (#59), which pairs nicely with the Easter ham.

Deadline for this prize puzzle is tomorrow at 10 EST.

[Cap'n Rick]

We are up to Jack Ham (#59)...

One of my all-time favorites! Jack was born in Johnstown, PA, and played linebacker for Penn State and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

[Abide]

Answer : The Wizard of Oz

Winner from 61 entries: AFK

Original puzzle (New York Sun, circa 2003)

[KayW]