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...carried the Chargers to a franchise-best 14-2 record, and since they hold home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, which start Jan. 6 (the Chargers have earned a first-round bye), the Bolts are favorites to fly to Miami, representing the American Football Conference in the Feb. 4 Super Bowl...
...mind this season. An aunt to whom Tomlinson was very close died suddenly in June, and his wife's aunt passed away later in the summer. On a less personal level, the expectations of a sun-splashed, championship-starved San Diego-- the Chargers have never won a Super Bowl, the Padres a World Series--fall squarely on Tomlinson's stout shoulders...
...League; in Dallas. Hunt enlisted fellow millionaires to start a new league in 1960, after the NFL refused to sell him a team. He became owner of the Dallas Texans and in 1963 moved the team to Kansas City, where it became the Chiefs. Hunt later coined the term Super Bowl for the big, season-ending match (the name came to him while he watched his daughter play with a Super Ball) and co-founded pivotal soccer groups, including the North American Soccer League and today's Major League Soccer...
...team down three points, picked up a fumble by the Pittsburgh Steelers near the Colts' 1-yd. line and ran for what should have been a touchdown. But Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hustled to trip Harper, saving the game for the Steelers, who went on to win the Super Bowl...
...Frankly, I thought that the vision that Larry Summers had was super,” says Albert W. Merck ’43, whose family founded one of the 10 largest pharmaceutical firms in the world. “This one was going to take us into the 21st century...