Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team, the defense went from No. 23 in the league to No. 2. "Other teams had to double- and triple-team Reggie," says Favre. "He also totally transformed the locker room." White's influence is not unlike that of Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some Packers were singing in the shower was Lighter Fluid. (It was Whiter Blood...
...week ago, the Patriots played through a heavy fog to rout the Pittsburgh Steelers. In two weeks, they get a chance to snap the AFC's 12-year losing streak in the Super Bowl when they face the Green Bay Packers in New Orleans...
...have a more comfortable grasp on the sports world and the world in general. When someone at home mentions the San Diego Chargers, I can now say that I know two people from San Diego and that they're actually okay, though they mourned for a while after Pittsburgh defeated them. When someone insults the sad record of the Philadelphia 76ers, I can't join in with complete abandon, because I know that somewhere in Hollis, there is someone rooting for them...
...league championship pairings are set, but it certainly isn't the same old crowd. After Sunday's games, in which defending champ Dallas lost to the expansion Carolina Panthers, 26-17, and the Pittsburgh Steelers were flattened by the New England Patriots 28-3, both of last year's Super Bowl teams were out of the hunt. "It's a new order in the NFL," said Panthers linebacker Kevin Greene, "and I'm tickled to death about it." No matter how next week's matchups turn out, this year's Super Bowl will be the first since 1991 without either...
...focus in international relations, I was excited to meet other students who were interested in similar fields. Our roundtable was geographically as well as ethnically diverse; schools participating included the University of Maryland-College Park, St. Bonaventure University, Berry College, University of California-Davis, MIT and the University of Pittsburgh, to name...