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...Sport Oklahoma survives Penn State, Miami and Bowl Day as college football celebrates a tidy and singular champ...
...national championship is far from the only thing in college football that is mythical. Outrageous excesses and recruiting crimes are so common that honest successes and true champions would be difficult to identify even if the sport were not unwieldy by nature. On the first day of every new year, the country caucuses at a number of 70,000-seat fruit and flower stands in the hope of an ultimate result that is both tidy and moral. As in any morality play, the characters are wildly oversimplified and the ending can still be confusing...
...Perry, modern Bears worthy of George Halas and Bronko Nagurski are off to New Orleans for their first Super Bowl. The enchanted opponent, New England's surprising Patriots, debuts too, under Raymond Berry. From I to XIX, each of the past games is revisited by one thoughtful man. See SPORT...
After covering the past 16 Super Bowls, Sport Writer Tom Callahan qualifies as an expert on America's football classic. To get a unique perspective on these near mythic contests, as well as round out his cover stories on the mighty Chicago Bears as they head into Super Bowl XX against the New England Patriots, Callahan compiled vignettes on 19 former participants, one from each game. For some, Super Sunday has receded in memory as just another day on the job; for others, it has made the rest of life anticlimactic. Taken together, says Callahan, their tales convey "a feeling...
...George Halas did most of the talking. The A.P.F.A. soon became the N.F.L., and the Decatur franchise, originally a sales tool for a starch manufacturer named Staley, shifted to Chicago in the custody of the amazing Halas. It might be an exaggeration to say that the entire fabric of sport was sewn in this singular man, but it is a fact that Halas shared one field with Jim Thorpe and yielded another to Babe Ruth. He was a most valuable player in the 1919 Rose Bowl and for a moment a rightfielder with the New York Yankees, but indelibly...