Word: bowle
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Irony is the sportswriter's most valued tool. It elevates merely exciting events to the realm of the extraordinary. The Oakland Raiders' Super Bowl victory, for instance, was a prime example--as the first wild card entry ever to win, it was interesting, but Jim Plunkett's remarkable comeback made it a story in the fullest sense...
Vermeil has made sure his team will be ready for the Raiders. When the Eagles leave Philadelphia this week for New Orleans, Vermeil will set up a rerun of training camp. Super Bowl hoopla leaves him unimpressed: "I don't give a damn for parties, ceremonies, celebrations. To me, there's only one way to enjoy a football game, gentlemen, and that...
Pretrial mudslinging has even reached the posh offices of Commissioner Pete Rozelle, whom Davis charged with scalping tickets to last year's Super Bowl. Rozelle vehemently denies this, though he admits selling a dozen tickets at face value to a travel-agency director who resold them as part of Super Bowl tour packages. The scalping charge is the latest round in a long-running feud between Davis and Rozelle, czar of the merged leagues. Rozelle has refused comment, but Davis is less restrained, saying: "I think he's corrupt...
Rozelle's admission has led to revelations that team owners, officials, coaches and players throughout the league have been selling their complimentary tickets to scalpers at huge profits. Each of the contending Super Bowl teams receives 22½% of the available tickets for its fans (a total of about 16,000 seats in New Orleans' 71,330-seat Superdome), while the remaining 26 teams split some 40% of the tickets (the rest go to corporate sponsors and TV networks). As much as six months before the game, scalpers will visit training camps to line up a "ticket captain...
Will Super Bowl XV be worth $CD, or even $XL? To avid Philadelphia and Oakland fans, probably so. But to most N.F.L. observers, there is a ticket worth even more: a front-row seat when Al Davis and Pete Rozelle meet in court next month...