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...career on Jan. 29, always starts with the chapter in that grocery store in Iowa. For good reason: it's still almost impossible to believe all these years later. In 1994, after the Green Bay Packers cut him - he was the fourth-string quarterback, stuck behind the legendary Ty Detmer - Warner returned to his hometown of Cedar Falls, where the only thing he was throwing was gummy bears. While working the night shift for $5.50 an hour at the local Hy-Vee supermarket, he and his bored co-workers would chuck the gooey candies at each other to pass...
...They're not the jobs players dream of - Mannelly tried to make the NFL as an offensive lineman, and Detmer would rather be tossing touchdown strikes than holding kicks. But long snappers and holders care deeply about their work. "I take pride in holding, absolutely," says Maynard. "I've held for some pretty good kickers, and I want people to remember it was something I was good at." He has only dropped two over a decade, so Maynard is certainly solid. But unfortunately, to be remembered, he'll have to muff one in the Super Bowl...
...holders, some place the ball on the ground with one finger, others with two or more. Koy Detmer, a quarterback by trade, holds his thumb and forefinger on the tip of the ball. "I pinch it like a nipple," says Detmer, who held for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2000 to 2005, and was brought back just for this year's playoffs after Eagles punter Dirk Johnson botched a late-season snap (with Detmer holding, Eagles kicker David Akers hit a 38-yard field goal with no time left to give the Eagles a 23-20 playoff victory over...
...Steelers (giving 6.5) over Browns. Cleveland's lovely new glass-and-steel Dawg House ? and a city that has dearly missed its football ? isn't worth more than a field goal; this is still an expansion team we're talking about, and Ty Detmer ain't Doug Flutie. Look for the defection-gutted Steelers to get 75 yards from nimble newcomer Amos Zereoue and grimace their way to a two-touchdown win. Unless Kordell Stewart gets emotional...
...Steelers over Browns As a Pittsburgh native, I?ve missed this rivalry, and I?ve also missed chuckling derisively at Cleveland fans each time the Steelers win. Look for me to be laughing my socks off this Sunday, as Kordell dries his eyes and gets down to business, and Detmer gets distracted by the age-old conundrum: Why are the Browns? uniforms so darn ugly? Bernie will be there, but he?ll be too far away from the action to do the Browns much good, as the Steelers finish with a comfortable 10-point lead...