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Cats vs. Pats Sideline superheroes John Fox and Bill Belichick prepare for a Super Bowl showdown...
...Hitting Herschel, nailing a 45-yard field goal in five inches of snow to send a playoff game into overtime, ending Super Bowl XXXVI two weeks later with 48-yard game-winner as time expired - he?s not jumping over cars and rivers on a rocket-powered motorcycle, but like his third cousin, Evel Knievel, Adam Vinatieri doesn?t melt under fire. Despite a sub-par regular season, when he converted a career-low 73.5% of his field goal tries, Vinatieri has kept a clutch foot in the playoffs. He hit a 46-yard knuckleball in the Arctic cold...
...make fateful decisions during the coming weeks (no, I?m not talking about the Democratic Primaries, but whether to mute the ads or the game during the Super Bowl), we might take a moment to ponder the ways in which football really is America?s game. With apologies to Bronislaw Malinowski - whose pioneering treatise on the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea led to studies of the ways in which the islanders appropriated cricket and turned it into a native ritual - let?s explore how we Americans took over the primitive sports of soccer and rugby and adapted them...
...Vinatieri is also indulging these days, having signed a 3-year, $4.5 million contract extension after his Super Bowl heroics two years ago. Foxboro sits a long way from his rustic birthplace, Yanktown, S.D., where another distant relative, great-great grandfather Felix Vinatieri, also put ice water in Adam?s blood. Felix served as George Custer?s band leader, but the 5-foot-2 Italian immigrant missed out on Little Big Horn after Custer, sensing danger, left Vinatieri and his 16-member brass band on a Powder River supply boat before succumbing to Crazy Horse. ?That was very fortunate...
...Super Bowl. It is the Great American Time Out, a three-hour pause on a Sunday afternoon in January that is--as sheer, unadorned spectacle--an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title--on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants...