Stadiumful

Tradition by the stadiums-ful and bids by the bowls-ful await three—and possibly four—Southeastern Conference teams Saturday.

I’ve watched the “magic” and the “mystery” of the Bible from soul-winning clinics, Salvation Army curb services, and stadiumsful-on-crusade to perjury-proofing on Perry Mason (“Swear to tell the whole truth . . . so help me God.”) to prophesies of submarines by desert-dwellers!

He orchestrates the nuclear freeze choir, that includes bishops of the Pope’s own church, leaders of the Protestant churches enrolled in the National Council, professors by the thousands, and campus rioters by the stadiaful.

Later the distaff draftees drew stadiumsful of cheering, dedicated fans.

Tyrants want praise so much they demand it by the stadiumful, but forced praise is near screams and weeping.

He had a beautiful, faithless wife and a stadiumful of friends who drank his drinks and indulged his whims and privately considered him a fool.

And yet we’re stymied by the challenge of building affordable housing for what amounts to six stadiumsful of people.

Imagine a stadiumful of Millwall supporters compressed into one streamlined, gold-feathered body seven feet tall at the wing, and you're mind's-eyeball to eyeball with a phoenix, age two minutes.