31.   Garrett, playing for the injured Troy Aikman, threw the ball deep down the middle of the field for wide receiver Billy Davis.

32.   Getting the ball down quick with the laces turned out never seemed so easy.

33.   Getting the ball down the left flank, he cut into the middle, avoided two defenders and took a shot.

34.   Haase, hounded in the right corner, thought he spotted a hole and fired the ball down the baseline, allegedly for Pollard.

35.   Hampton won this one by bearing down with runners in scoring position, mixing speeds, nipping at the corners and keeping the ball down.

36.   Hamm carried a ball down the right flank and launched a long cross into the box.

37.   He lofted a ball down the range, over a grassy field that already had the green flush of spring.

38.   He punted the ball straight down the center of the field.

39.   He had intended to stop and throw the ball down the far sideline to running back Coy Wire.

40.   He remembers how he and Bob used to lose balls down the sewers, then wait for the rains to float them up into reach again.