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gridiron

[grid-ahy-ern] / ˈgrɪdˌaɪ ərn /




NOUN
frying pan
Synonyms


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Phil Knight, who bankrolls Oregon, turned Nike into an intercontinental empire that transformed the Ducks into a gridiron behemoth.

From The Wall Street Journal

The inside baseball, or in this case, football, makes this Netflix series a fascinating watch for NFL fans, but pulling back the curtain on the gridiron gods’ humanity is where it shines.

From Los Angeles Times

Or a gridiron celebration of a certain toaster pastry?

From MarketWatch

What’s even stranger about their absence from national relevance on the gridiron is that the Ivy League essentially invented big-time college football.

From The Wall Street Journal

But beyond the strident rhetoric lies a good story about race, power and the exploitation of gridiron heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal