Word: superealism
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...Page, 40, a special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, "but no one has ever explained to me how one loss blights a season." Sometimes, the worst thing to be in America is second best in the world. "It doesn't make much sense, does it?" He started four Super Bowls at defensive tackle and, ending with XI, lost every one. "Almost none of the specifics have stayed with me. In retrospect, the result really isn't all that important. The excitement is in the striving, not the attaining, going out and trying to perform, hopefully enjoying ourselves along...
...seasons as an assistant coach, starting with the newborn Boston Patriots in 1960, Red Miller dreamed of his moment. He never dreamed it would last but a moment. In his careful, defensive way, the 49-year-old "rookie" head coach squired the Broncos to the Super Bowl as Denver's deprived fans painted the country a bright orange. "I walked out onto the field," Miller says, "and thought, 'I used to coach at Astoria High.'" Within three years he was available to Astoria again, but the U.S. Football League's Denver Gold hired him for his marketability. Sales boomed briefly...
...dropped the Super Bowl, smack in his hands, keeled over just like Charlie Brown and collapsed in the end zone forever. "Tough to handle," drawls Jackie Smith, 45, the great St. Louis tight end, coaxed from retirement by Dallas. "But it mellows." He produces fishing films now in rural Arkansas and misses big cities not at all. No tight ends are in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame, but one ought to be. "Sounds crazy, considering what happened," he says. "But I don't guess I ever enjoyed a season so much. All those years in St. Louis, I never...
Several years before the Rams reached the Super Bowl, Defensive End Fred Dryer and Teammate Lance Rentzel spoofed the famous hype by crashing the press box in the '20s guise of Front-Page Reporters Cubby O'Switzer and Scoops Brannigan. Each carried a "press" card in his cap and a $50 bill in his kit for flashing at bellhops and other cheap purposes. "After that, I couldn't help but smile at the Super Bowl," says Dryer, 39, for whom acting has become a profession. He plays Police Detective Hunter on television. "When all the over-coaching, overpreparing and overwriting...
...notes Deputy Director Xu Zhiyuan. After ten cities, the tumblers are still adjusting from the intimate Chinese circus style to what Xu politely calls "a very grand presentation that is to the American audience's taste." Meanwhile, their countrymen were adjusting last week to the American circus known as Super Bowl XX. The first 90-min. TV broadcast of "gan lan qiu" (olive ball) was watched by some 300 million Chinese...