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...same star treatment will be given to the New England Patriots' Bill Belichick and the Carolina Panthers' John Fox during Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVIII, in Houston. Fox may try to mute the two coaches' importance--"He and I aren't going to play a single snap"--but he can hardly be modest about his achievement since taking the Panthers' reins early in 2002. No other NFL team has gone from a 1-15 season to the Super Bowl in just two years. Underdogs all this season, the Panthers relied on an insistent running game and a demolishing defense. They...
...embarrassed, and willing to do anything to prevent that happening again." Fox mixed paternal goodwill with a physical (read: brutal) defensive strategy and made no-names like quarterback Jake Delhomme and wide receiver Steve Smith into overachievers. "He's not a rah-rah guy," says ABC commentator and Super Bowl coach John Madden, "but he's a lot more rah-rah than Belichick. He's in the middle of the rah-rah scale...
...room, drawing up defenses." That didn't suit Belichick for the p.r. functions of a head coach, and he failed in a stint at Cleveland. He's still ill at ease in press conferences, but he has a lighter side. Quarterback Tom Brady, another no-namer promoted to Super Bowl glory when the Pats took it all in 2002, insists his coach is "very witty, very intelligent." Asked for a few gems of Belichick stand-up, Brady demurs: "We're talking about a football coach here. Not much of that stuff is going to be printable...
...than 76 when he died. Over the decades Keeshan literally became the kindly old man he created at only 28--he didn't grow his soup-strainer mustache until the mid-'60s, and his face and figure gradually rounded into kindly Falstaffian proportions as the years went by. (The bowl haircut, however, was always a wig.) Though he cautioned parents against using TV as a baby sitter, knowing some would anyway, he made himself into a virtual grandfather. "It was not a show," he would later say. "It was a visit...
...Rank of Super Bowl Sunday, among all the days of the year, in pizza sales at the major U.S. pizza chains...