1.   Before a lot of football widows suggest that this country is going to hell on a blocking sled, one other TV statistic should be recited.

2.   Could the blocking sleds and the pads be left behind without being stolen?

3.   During his first workout, he hit the blocking sled so hard, the guy holding it flew through the air and separated a shoulder.

4.   Earlier this week, Ware launched tailback DeShaun Foster into the blocking sled with a tough hit.

5.   Few things make offensive-line coach Mark Weber happier than the new blocking sleds dotting the northeast corner of Spaulding Field.

6.   Gladstone might be good at this, because finding money for new boats is far more difficult than finding money for new blocking sleds.

7.   He has a pinched nerve in his neck from hitting a defective blocking sled.

8.   Hitting blocking sleds is almost an everyday ritual for offensive and defensive linemen and linebackers.

9.   Southwest Missouri recently purchased a new blocking sled, courtesy of Cox.

10.   The collisions come at rhythmic intervals, like football players attacking a blocking sled.