Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone who spent much time at the television set, as millions did, during a fortnight of American rites-the Inaugural, the flight home of the hostages, the Super Bowl with its quasi minute of silent prayer-saw some memorable moments. But the proportion of the memorable to the banal, the overhyped, the stage waits, the garrulous monologues when nothing was happening, was about...
...Oakland Raiders were the J.R. Ewings of professional football, and the list of suspects anxious to shoot them down in the Super Bowl was a long one. The favorite: N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who has wanted Raiders Managing General Partner Al Davis out of the way ever since Davis led the upstart A.F.L. to victory in a bidding war for talent with the N.F.L. and forced a merger of the two leagues in 1966. Next were the 22 N.F.L. owners who voted last year to block Davis' plan to move the Raiders to Los Angeles. Then there were...
...when Super Bowl XV finally drew to a close, the Raiders had the last sneer. With a 27-10 drubbing of Philadelphia, which was favored to win, Oakland became the first wild-card team to win the Super Bowl. Thus the Raiders could gleefully ask: Guess who shot the Eagles...
...game was not as close as the score. Even though Philadelphia Quarterback Ron Jaworski attempted 38 passes, a Super Bowl record, completing 18, for 291 yds., the Eagles were lame on the ground, gaining only 69 yds. Philadelphia's main problem was Oakland Quarterback Jim Plunkett, the Super Bowl M.V.P., who seemed to have all day to pass-and did, completing 13 of 21 for three touchdowns. Plunkett had waited a long time for his moment of glory, enduring injury in New England, humiliation in San Francisco and, finally, a year on the bench at Oakland...
John Seelen, a member of the class of '77, earned the Brooks Bowl--an award presented to the year's outstanding freshman swimmer--before being forced out of the limelight by tendonitits, during his sophomore season...