Word: xvi
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...pressure and leaning the wrong way, Montana let go, and Clark leaped for a ball aimed where he would get it or no one could. The extra point was good, and when the Cowboys tried to rally, they fumbled. By 28-27, the 49ers were going to Super Bowl XVI...
Pontiac, Mich., a lunch-bucket industrial suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, seems an unlikely host for Super Bowl XVI. It is the first time in the history of the sports event that the game will move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after...
...recently declared it one of the most economically depressed areas in the nation. It is a one-industry town, and that industry is the ailing auto business. Unemployment has escalated to a Great Depression level of 23.9%, almost triple the national average. Into this municipal battleground for survival, old XVI, with its estimated 70,000 out-of-town visitors, its press personnel and its attendant show-business acts, arrives like a relief column of well-off cavalry. Some experts claim that the event may pump as much as $62 million into the economy of southeastern Michigan...
...Cincinnati Bengals and San Francisco 49ers yesterday joined the San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League's semi-final playoff round--the last step before Super Bowl XVI, January 24 at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome...
...contests since 1967, the market has gone up the year in which the National Football Conference team won the Super Bowl, and down when the American Football Conference team was the victor. So the best gauge-in chartist terms-for Wall Street activity in 1982 is Super Bowl XVI, which will be held on Jan. 24 in the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich. Watch closely. Then buy or sell...