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He's a football player, and football players know how to treat a woman right.

— Hank Hill ‧ King of the Hill

Painterly worn leather football on a stack of papers beneath distant stadium lights.
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The speaker vouches for a man because he plays football, assuming that footballers know how to treat a woman properly. This is the speaker's own sweeping generalisation, offered as though the sport guarantees good manners. The confidence of the claim, resting on a job description, is what gives it flavour.

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