Word: bowlful
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...yard lob from Giants quarterback Eli Manning glided into the endzone into the hands of an awaiting Plaxico Burress, giving New York a 17-14 lead over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII with just 35 seconds left in the game, I jumped up and, after a quick high five with my roommate, I looked for one person: Tom Conley. The Kirkland House Master has been a die-hard Giants supporter since the team played its games in Yankee Stadium in the 1950s, and as a cacophony of sound waves both jubilant but mostly anguished crashed against...
...Hastily assembled in less than 30 hours on Super Bowl Sunday, the gathering drew 9,000 people. "I believe that change has already come, California. I believe that change has already come because I know that you all just heard about this this morning and you said 'Let me get on over there to UCLA,' here on a Super Bowl Sunday," Winfrey told the crowd. "We're all energized, we're excited and we're fired...
There had to be a metaphor somewhere - it was all too symbolic: Mitt Romney, the often-hyped Massachusetts governor turned presidential candidate, was watching the also-hyped New England Patriots as they approached the apparent verge of Super Bowl victory Sunday, just two days before the biggest election of Romney's life, Super Tuesday, when 21 states would shape the fate of his White House dreams...
...couple of minutes remained in the fourth quarter, with the Pats up by four and the New York Giants driving. Romney stood alone, without a tie, in a starched white shirt and Super Bowl cap before dozens of reporters with boom mics that kept getting in the way of the hotel lobby TV. One way or another, football history was being made, for sure. But Romney was surrounded by political scribes, not sports reporters. One of them asked, Do you see a metaphor for your campaign in the game...
...York Giants jerseys, cupcakes, banners and balloons lay side-by-side. I realized that I was in one of a few strange, Twilight Zone-like patches in the world: a place where Boston and New York sports fans could co-exist in peace. Certainly, Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup lacks some of the Boston-New York bite to which sports fans have become so accustomed. What pushes this game past the level of usual Super Bowl hoopla is, of course, the Patriots’ potential place in history. As usual, sports fans seem to be rallying against...