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The cross-dressing gag was good enough for Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. It even resonated lately with football fans in a Visa spot that shows pudgy, pig-nosed Washington Redskins fans in women’s dresses. But it’s apparently questionable for Terry Bradshaw, or at least for his claymation counterpart, in new promos from Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco, for the NFL on Fox program.

In one spot, the claymation versions of Bradshaw, Howie Long and James Brown are running from an angry Brian Urlacher, the Chicago Bears linebacker (because Bradshaw has “put Icy Hot in his jock”).

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