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Show of hands.(football player Cris Carter)

From: The Sporting News  |  Date: 10/30/2000  |  Author: Dillon, Dennis

It may be called football, but it's really a game of hands--pushing, holding, punching, throwing, catching. And no one gets a grip like Vikings receiver Cris Carter, overwhelmingly selected by his peers as the player with the best hands in the NFL.

THE BEST HANDS IN FOOTBALL are taking a paraffin bath. First, the right hand plunges up to its wrist into a toaster-sized basin filled with the yellow-tinted liquid heated to 126 degrees. It emerges from the pool after a few seconds. ...

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