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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1451843, member: 289"]
Agree. I'm more interested in the 10 yard dash than the 40 yard dash. That's what makes a play successful.

Football games rarely come down to a sprint to the goal line between two fast players. But here's one time it did, one of those things I remember watching from my youth. The Giants had a lightening-fast rookie named Clarence Childs. He was so quick you noticed it immediatley. He seemed to be on 45RPM and everyone else was 33 1/3. Then they played the Cowboys and they assigned Clarence to cover #22. Bob Hayes.

[URL]http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=luksa_frank&id=3312940[/URL]

"The most sincere display of NFL speed Hayes produced occurred in the Cotton Bowl against the [URL='http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/clubhouse?team=nyg']New York Giants[/URL] in 1966. It amounted to a 50-yard duel after Hayes caught a short pass and turned toward the end zone with cornerback Clarence Childs, a world-class sprinter, two strides behind. Off they flew in open field, until Hayes scored without Childs gaining an inch on him.

I asked Bobby after the game if he worried that Childs might catch him. Hayes dismissed the idea as absurd.

"Naw, he's just an ol' 9.3 man,''' he scoffed."

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