With the two touchdowns, Hester burst ahead of a litany of great returners, including Deion Sanders, Billy Johnson and Gale Sayers.
It hadn't — he got passed, then burst ahead again later — but we stuck around for a while as the crowds thinned.
Others, buoyed by the warm sun and the companionship of hundreds, simply burst ahead, past the rubble-strewn lots and the graffiti.
The apogee of central planning occurred in 1957, when the greatest central planner of them all, the Soviet Union, suddenly burst ahead in the space (and technology) race with Sputnik I.
Not that the Frenchman needed to overtake in Sunday's event - from the starting line he burst ahead of his rivals, creating a 20-second lead after the first of seven laps.
They have continued to make chances since going ahead, with Adam Johnson bursting into the box and almost setting up David Silva, before Sergio Aguero's spectacular effort flew wide.
Sold off oil stocks ahead of the bursting of the energy bubble last summer.
From the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park to the Chicago Botanic Garden, flowering bulbs and other plants are bursting out two to four weeks ahead of schedule.
If everyone were a productive member of society, reliably rising to greet the morning, bursting into song and eager for the day ahead.
Indeed, the popular world view here seemed to be of a wave theory -- with another crest still ahead -- rather than of a bubble bursting.
