The fact that New York English lets negations that
syntactically appear to have narrow scope in fact take wide scope with respect
to quantifiers never ceases to amuse me. (I am, to be sure, easily amused by
language from time to time.) This is from this morning’s Super
Bowl coverage.

The Super Bowl has been known to canonize its quarterbacks,
but sometimes it buries them. Everyone can’t be Joe Montana and Joe Namath.

Not even Joe Montana?! Not even Joe Namath?!!