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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050206
Author:Jan Freeman

IF JONATHAN SWIFT were here today, feeling the Super Bowl fever, he'd be amazed.

OK, yeah, that's an understatement. When Swift died in 1745, Massachusetts was still a loyal British colony, fighting the French on behalf of the king. Revolution was decades in the future, football and broadcasting more distant still. But if he could sit through a couple of hours' worth of WEEI sports talk, the sourpuss satirist would be in for a very personal surprise: One of fandom's favorite words is Swift's own coinage, yahoo .

But Swift might also notice that his brainchildren have been evolving. The ...

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