How Did Murray Save Football

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Have you heard the story about how Murray saved football? He is like one of the best running backs ever. It was a Sunday night in Minneapolis Minnesota. The Viking were playing football vs the Packers and they were hurting lots of the Packers players.
After Anthony Barr broke Aaron Rodgers collarbone. Everyone was leaving because they knew the Vikings are going to win. Once he broke his collarbone these health people were going to get rid of football because the Vikings are hurting so many players on the packers. All they had to do was sign this paper to get rid of it.
Once Murray heard that they were going to get rid of football you knew he was going to do something. They had the ball at the five-yard line on the other side of the field

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