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Gill

Mr. President, militant women are out to destroy college football in this country.

— The American President  ·  1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Gill warns the President that militant women are supposedly out to destroy college football. It's an alarmist claim, treating a sport as a matter of national crisis. Read it as his overheated view, with the comedy in how enormous the stakes are made to sound.

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