1.   All back slaps and shoulder tugs notwithstanding, Coach Boomer is Super Bowl-bound.

2.   On the streets and in restaurants, strangers seek Nadler out for congratulatory handshakes and back slaps.

3.   So they became actors last week, putting on tragedy masks in public and giving reassuring back slaps when they were among friends.

4.   The pleasantries of this family feud had been dispensed with early, the back slaps and handshakes exchanged among the eternally intertwined teams.