Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surrounded by 20 reporters one day last week, Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams recounted how he and former Teammate Lance Rentzel attended the 1975 Super Bowl as accredited correspondents for Sport magazine. "We acted just like regular beat-reporters would," he said. "We ate and drank free all week, but we were unbelievable tippers. We slept in our suits. We blurted questions. We weren't interested in answers, and we didn't wait for them...
Make no mistake about it. The Pittsburgh Steelers are one big happy family. The team that will try this Sunday to win its fourth Super Bowl is a homegrown crew. No Steeler has ever played for another pro team, and the club is bankrolled by a kindly patriarch and brainrolled by his savvy sons...
Make no bones about it. The Los Angeles Rams are one big battling family. Appearing in their first Super Bowl after 14 years as the league's perennial bridegrooms, the Rams are a motley crew presided over by a beautiful and stubborn widow who fired her stepson, hinted of plans to unload her coach and outraged her players. The Steelers, as befits the defending Super Bowl champions, sailed through their season like a proud flagship; the Rams endured the football equivalent of a voyage on the Bounty...
...Rosenbloom's determination will be pitted in the Super Bowl against a carefully constructed football team coached by Chuck Noll that may be the finest in the history of the game. The family franchise in Pittsburgh is as peaceful as the Rams' is stormy. Owner Art Rooney Sr., 78, has turned over the operation of the Steelers to his two sons. Dan, 46, team president, runs the business side. Art Jr., 43, is a vice president and the man who has assembled a marvelously balanced team led by Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, 32, who survived his trial by fire...
...inexperienced quarterback. I've had to rely heavily on my instincts and earlier training because I haven't had much time to work with my receivers." The strength of the Rams is their defense and their goad is a history of failure ever to reach the Super Bowl. On Sunday the team's many veterans will be trying to make up for a decade of frustration...