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FAST FACTS: Big Tuna Bill Parcells

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Jan 16, 2008 6:35 pm US/Eastern

FAST FACTS: Big Tuna Bill Parcells

  So the term Big Tuna has become synonymous in the sports world with new Dolphins Vice President of Football Operations Bill Parcells, but most don't even know where the term came from, so we'll let the Tuna himself explain:

"I think it goes back to my first time with the Patriots. There was an old commercial from StarKist with Charlie the StarKist tuna. So my players were trying to con me on something one time, and I said, 'You must think I'm Charlie the Tuna,' you know, a sucker, and that's kind of how it started. We started with it that year and [Charlie and the other fish] used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their helmets. That's where it all started."

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