1.   And now that end game is a Super Bowl, Brodie is the best kind of father-in-law to his son-in-law ... a proud one.

2.   A transplanted one, but a proud one.

3.   Carl Dorelien was once a small-time dictator, and a proud one at that.

4.   He was going against the Buccaneers, a sad sack franchise, but a proud one, and its line was determined to slow him.

5.   In the game-rich hunting country of upstate New York, the day a boy got a hunting permit was a proud one.

6.   Torricelli said this week would have been a very proud one for his mother, who died three years ago.

7.   What the BBWA is saying is that its role in this tradition is such a proud one that it will do almost anything to keep it going.