Word: bowled
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Buffalo and Dallas both seek redemption in the Super Bowl...
...ratings expectations; and with the loss of David Letterman, even NBC's dominance of late night seems in jeopardy. The network is desperately in need of a miracle. Homicide: Life on the Street, which makes its one-hour debut in the coveted time period following the Super Bowl, will have to serve...
...SUPER BOWL IS OFTEN A GAME in search of a theme. Hundreds, perhaps thousands will be proposed before the official kickoff at 3:18 p.m. PST this Sunday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Can the coach who was a Phi Beta Kappa at Coe College (Buffalo's Marv Levy) outsmart the good ole boy who once presided over the obstreperous hired guns at the University of Miami (Dallas' Jimmy Johnson)? Can the American Football Conference ever win another Super Bowl, having lost 10 of the past 11 to the National Football Conference? Will the half-time show...
...central theme of this Super Bowl No. 27 (enough of the Roman numerals!) is obvious: redemption. The Buffalo Bills have played in the Super Bowl for the past two years, expecting to win both times. Instead, they lost by a hair to the New York Giants, then were scalped by the Redskins. After the Bills thumped the Miami Dolphins 29-10 last week to earn their third straight trip to "the Show," as players prefer to call it, there was little euphoria. Instead, there was a sense of mission. "I don't think we want to celebrate yet," said nose...
...while Buffalo was fighting its way to the Super Bowl, Dallas was losing and stockpiling blue-chip draft choices like running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin. All of which proves the axiom that losing in the Super Bowl is actually worse than going 1-15. If you finish last, you at least get to pick first in the draft. Defeat in the Super Bowl, on the other hand, is a bitter bone to chew with nothing but snowbanks and February staring you in the face...