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...struggle for the national championship, a third presence usually constitutes an intrusion, but the 10-1 University of Miami Hurricanes represented just a small complication. While the local team was away in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, its activities were so well chronicled in the Herald and News that the triangle seemed joined in Miami. Oklahoma and Miami stood 2-4 in the wire-service poll of the coaches, 3-2 in the competing view of the sporting press. Having already beaten Oklahoma, 27-14, the Hurricanes were poised to be affronted by only half a title should...
...area of sideline composure, Oklahoma's good-times coach was as graceful and considerate later as Shaffer. "In the '50s, coaches may have made the difference," he said, "but you don't outcoach anymore. Players win now." With a sigh not a bellow, Switzer proclaimed, "We survived Bowl Day. That gives us the national championship." As for next year, he advised pretenders, "You've got to be good, got to be lucky and got to have other people help you." Oklahoma's aid came from New Orleans, where Miami had the good taste to run up only seven points...
From Walter Payton to William Perry, modern Bears worthy of George Halas and Bronko Nagurski are off to New Orleans for their first Super Bowl. The enchanted opponent, New England's surprising Patriots, debuts too, under Raymond Berry. From I to XIX, each of the past games is revisited by one thoughtful man. See SPORT...
After covering the past 16 Super Bowls, Sport Writer Tom Callahan qualifies as an expert on America's football classic. To get a unique perspective on these near mythic contests, as well as round out his cover stories on the mighty Chicago Bears as they head into Super Bowl XX against the New England Patriots, Callahan compiled vignettes on 19 former participants, one from each game. For some, Super Sunday has receded in memory as just another day on the job; for others, it has made the rest of life anticlimactic. Taken together, says Callahan, their tales convey "a feeling...
...Picture Researcher MaryAnne Golon. "Finding historical shots from the games themselves was practically impossible, since many of the men Tom talked to did not play starring roles on those days," she says. "So we decided to take pictures of them in the jerseys they wore in the Super Bowls." Easier said than done, however. Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page of Super Bowl XI, now a special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, and former Los Angeles Ram Fred Dryer of Super Bowl XIV, now an actor on the TV series Hunter, were not interested in re-creating their gridiron days...