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James L. Gilbert's avatar

A quick Google search didn't find if you'd addressed the phrase "toe meets leather" as depicted in the cartoon in today's article. Newspapers.com is currently inaccessible from Wikipedia, but I was still able to find the phrase in a 1911 Delaware County Daily Times (11/28/1911, p. 4). Is that a phrase you've searched for?

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Football Archaeology's avatar

I never searched for that phrase. Nowadays, the operative phrase is "metatarsus meets leather."

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Sports Dispatch's avatar

Once again a great piece of history through the ads of antiquity! Nice jobTim!

s it a bad thing if I said I have a pair of those that I wear out for a night on the town?

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Football Archaeology's avatar

If is is SFW, please describe which pair you have worn on a night on the town. Or, keep it to yourself and we can discuss separately.

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