Word: xix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the old American Football League is victorious. "Its reliability is uncanny," says Shearson Lehman's Furniss. That rule of thumb has been right in 16 of the past 18 years. So when the San Francisco 49ers of the original N.F.L. trounced the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX on Jan. 20, Wall Street knew it had something to cheer about...
...President and the Vice President and 95 guests: family and friends, the Cabinet, Congressional leaders and the President's closest aides. For the first time ever, news cameras were allowed to record the scene. Later in the day, Reagan arranged to toss the coin before Super Bowl XIX, an officiation beamed from the White House to Stanford Stadium in California and some 120 million sports fans viewing at home...
...idea for a presidential Supertoss, as Reagan's football coin flip was called, originated with Michael Deaver, the soon-to-depart White House deputy chief of staff. It was obviously designed to tie the President to the event around which millions of Americans planned their weekend, Super Bowl XIX in Palo Alto, Calif. For a very few, those plans called for the near impossible: live attendance at both the game and the Flipper's swearing-in ceremony in Washington Monday morning. Congressman and former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, for one, swore he could make it back to Washington aboard...
Renovations on Stanford University Stadium's press box, locker rooms, ticket booths and concession areas began last week in preparation for Super Bowl XIX, which will take place in Palo Alto next January...