Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the Broncos in the playoffs. They hadn't won in the post-season since their 1977 Super Bowl season...
...Patriots, who won three road games to capture the AFC title a year ago, joined last year's Super Bowl opponent, the Chicago Bears, on the sideline for the remainder of the playoffs. The Bears were defeated by Washington on Saturday...
...York Giants moved within a game of their first Super Bowl appearance ever by demolishing the San Francisco 49ers, 49-3, yesterday as Phil Simms passed for four touchdowns, Joe Morris ran for 159 yards and linebacker Carl Banks led a defense that shut down one of the NFL's top offenses...
Such attitudes are not altogether unknown in the 3,000-member Mustang Club, an S.M.U.-based organization whose dollars have helped underpin S.M.U.'s record as a jock palace (three Bowl games and a No. 2 national ranking in the past six years). Says one faculty member: "Only being No. 1 counts for anything . . . getting there is all that counts as long as you don't land in jail." Advocates of this hard-line boosterism hoped that S.M.U. could skate past the death penalty and be back to business as usual in '88 after the probation ends...
Among sports-based books, by far the best is Tarkenton's collaboration with Edgar Winner Herb Resnicow, Murder at the Super Bowl (Morrow; 249 pages; $15.95). Aptly, in what has been an injury-plagued N.F.L. season, the plot turns on the vulnerability -- and, Tarkenton argues, innate pacifism -- of quarterbacks vs. the inherent violence of defensive linemen...