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Sep- 6-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

According to Stars & Stripes the time difference didn't stop some football fans with the 2/25 SBCT from staying up to watch the first regular season NFL game of season. Excerpt:

CAMP TAJI, Iraq — When New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs plowed into Washington safety LaRon Landry in the first quarter, Staff Sgt. Tom Smarr leaped out of his chair.

"Oh, he just got run over!" the soldier said, laughing. "This game is going to be over before the third quarter."

Smarr, a soldier with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, said he didn’t really care how Thursday’s NFL opener turned out. As a Dallas Cowboys fan, he was rooting against both teams.


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