Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which we assuredly will hear more about before Sunday, it's been a rough year for football. The extended strike by players took a sizeable bite out of the season, forcing the league to rearrange the playoff format and--alas--allow just one week instead of two for Super Bowl hype. Complex questions over anti-trust and eminent domain arose after the relocation of a team. And widespread reports of rampant cocaine use among players rocked the league. In short, the seamy side of football emerged this year, making clear that the game is merely a business with plenty...
...copy. According to Nancy's replacement at the other end of toll-free line, Nancy "hasn't worked here for some time. And also according to the faceless female voice, Nancy left no forwarding address, even for the purpose of a discussion about football magazines and the Super Bowl...
Like mausoleums of a passing age, they stand shuttered and empty. They are the padlocked steel mills of what has come to be known grimly as the American Rust Bowl, and from the rail sidings of East Chicago to the icy waterways of western New York State, they offer mute testimony to the industrial damage that has been done by the longest economic decline in half a century...
...Super Bowl is the ultimate game, why is there another one next year...
...four surviving teams in the National Football League's Super Bowl tournament press on toward the ultimate game, the question is whether anyone ultimately survives at all. The last three Super Bowls were won by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers, none of whom made it back even to the play-offs the following year. John Madden, who celebrated the 1977 Super Bowl with Oakland after eight years of trying, slipped the next season and quit coaching the year after that. He says, "The real pressure is having to do it again and again...