Word: bowle
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With his usual restraint, Washington Quarterback Joe Theismann describes the Super Bowl as "the greatest spectacle created by man," and this year the festivities may include a football game. What seemed the tangiest possible match all along has agreeably come about: the defending champion Redskins, who have somehow avoided arrogance in the face of 31 victories in their past 34 games, vs. the Los Angeles Raiders, the National Football League's masters of the black arts...
Washington was considered an oddball champion last year, when an eight-week strike muddied the results and disenchanted the customers. But if the Redskins were eccentric then, they have since gone completely crazy. Instead of laying off for a season, as Super Bowl teams are inclined to do, they poured it on. In 18 games since last January's 27-17 triumph over the Miami Dolphins, they lave lost merely two, each by one point, both on Monday nights. Scoring a record 541 points, permitting just 332, the Red skins are not yet esteemed at the level of past...
...Running behind Jacoby," Riggins says, "you can't see anything else." Jeff Bostic, a plump center once cut by the Philadelphia Eagles, was hired several years ago solely to hike for kicks (the regular man had contracted snapper's "yips"). Now Bostic is also starting the Pro Bowl...
...fans, old and new, were in frenzy. Something about sports and politics attracts. Both are sudden-death games. Congressman Jack Kemp, the former Bills quarterback who now calls signals for the advocates of the gold standard, rates this Super Bowl just below the invasion of Grenada and above another House budget fight. He would not miss it. Columnist Carl Rowan says he might kill if he were denied a ticket. He is going in Owner Jack Kent Cooke's jetted and pampered entourage. ''Everybody has a little aggression in them," insists Rowan. "We can all get emotionally...
Steinbeck ended up a Lost Generation unto himself. As a novelist, he found his theme only when he ran into those other lost and rootless Americans, the Dust Bowl migrants, making their way to California's orchards and lettuce farms in 1935-36. The Grapes of Wrath stands as his one full-scale masterpiece...