The problem was an old flag-football knee injury that had caused muscle atrophy on the injured side.

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An old flag-football knee injury had hung around too long, which led to muscle atrophy on the injured side.

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The closest thing Mr. Holder has to coaching experience in sports, he said in an interview, was leading his intramural flag-football team in college.

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None were mentioned in the release but sources on the panel said one suggestion that was sent to the Archbishop was a non-contact flag football league.

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None were mentioned in the releases but sources on the panel said one suggestion that was sent to the Archbishop was a non-contact flag football league.

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Despite its kneejerk reaction to a Sunday of bone-crushing hits and injuries, the NFL does not want its product to turn into flag football where the scores are an Arena-like 55-45.

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But Mark Perryman, author of Ingerland: Travels with a Football Nation, and the co-founder of the Philosophy Football T-shirt company, which organised the event, agrees with Bragg that the flag and the football team are among the few things English people have to illustrate their national identity.

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