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FASTEN YOUR HELMET; HERE COMES THE SUPER BOWL

by Eric A. Iron

Arguably the most important annual sporting event in the world, the Super Bowl has grown into a two-week-long circus that draws millions. In this edition of Tidbits, we’ll take a whirlwind look at the 42 games played so far. • Technically, there was no Super Bowl I – it

was billed as the World Championship Game. Held at Memorial Coliseum in L.A. on January 15, 1967, the NFL’s Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. In those days, teams ran the ball more, but Packers quarterback Bart Starr was MVP with 250 yards passing and two TDs. To ensure maximum viewership, the game was broadcast on both CBS and NBC.

• Starr and the Packers returned to defeat the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl II. The game was held in Miami’s Orange Bowl, the sta-dium which would go on to host three of the first five Super Bowls.

• SB III was the first one that really excited the fans. It seemed obvious that the NFL had superiority over the AFL, but the younger league spoke up through the voice of Jets QB Joe Namath, who guaranteed victory over the Baltimore Colts. He delivered the win and became a sports legend overnight.

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NATIONAL BOSS DAYby Stanley Drummond

Bosses are people, too. (Really!) And every year on October 16, America pays tribute to them.• Actually, National Boss Day was created in

1958 by an Illinois secretary named Patricia Haroski. She chose October 16 because it was her father’s birthday. Her father also happened to be her boss at the time. Nevertheless, she felt that bosses in general were underappreciated, and registered the date with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an official observance.

• Interestingly enough, a 2005 survey done by an international human resources consulting firm revealed that the majority of employees would not trade places with their boss. The primary reason given was the change that would result between them and their co-workers. They could no longer ignore or laugh at any slackers in their department; they’d be responsible for any poor performers.

• Hallmark started selling Boss Day cards in 1979. While they don’t reveal actual sales figures, they do disclose that the “holiday” is poised to break into the list of top 10 card-send-ing events within the next few years.

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• On Jan. 26, 1838, the first Prohibition law in U.S. history is passed in Tennessee, making it a misdemeanor to sell alcoholic beverages in taverns and stores. Despite an often-vigorous effort, the federal government failed to prevent the large-scale distribution of alcoholic beverages, and organized crime flourished.

• On Feb. 1, 1893, Thomas Edison finishes the first movie studio on his property in West Orange, N.J. The studio, a frame cabin covered with black roofing paper, was built on a pivot so it could be turned to face the sunlight throughout the day. Edison spent $638 building the studio, which he called a “revolving photographic building.”

• On Jan. 27, 1918, the first Tarzan film, “Tarzan of the Apes,” is released. The silent movie, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel, was the first in a long line of Tarzan productions. Olympic champion swimmer Johnny Weissmuller starred in 11 Tarzan movies from 1932 to 1948.

• On Jan. 28, 1959, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League sign Vince Lombardi to a five-year contract as the team’s coach and general manager. In his first season, Lombardi guided the Packers to a 7-5 record and a third-place finish in the NFL’s Western Conference.

• On Jan. 30, 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil-rights demonstrators are shot dead by British army paratroopers in an event that becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” In April 1972, the British government released a report exonerating British troops from any illegal actions during the protest.

• On Jan. 29, 1980, the U.S. Postal Service issues a stamp honoring comedian W.C. Fields. On screen, Fields was a misanthrope who hated children and animals and fought bankers, landladies and the police. Friends reported that his stage presence reflected Fields’ true personality.

• On Jan. 31, 1990, the Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s fast-food restaurant opens in Moscow. Throngs of people lined up to pay the equivalent of several days’ wages for Big Macs, shakes and french fries.

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THE SUPER BOWL (continued): • In 1970, the game was played in New Or-

leans for the first time, at Tulane Stadium. (This was before the Superdome was built.) The Chiefs rebounded from losing the first Super Bowl to defeat the Minnesota Vikings.

• Super Bowls V, VI and VII were all about “righting the ship” for teams that had pre-viously lost the big game. In Super Bowl V, the Colts – previously shocked by Namath’s Jets – handed the Dallas Cowboys a 16-13 loss. (Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley won the MVP award, the first for a non-QB as well as the first for a player on a losing team.) In Super Bowl VI, the Cowboys re-turned to defeat the Miami Dolphins.

• Miami then repeated Dallas’ turnaround, but did them one better. After coming up short in SB VI, the Dolphins dominated in 1972, going undefeated. They topped the Washing-ton Redskins in SB VII, which was (at the time) the fourth-most-watched TV show in U.S. history. SB VIII was held at Rice Sta-dium in Texas for the first time. In the game, Miami beat the Vikings, joining the Packers as the only teams with back-to-back wins.

• The Pittsburgh Steelers took care of Minne-sota in SB IX. The Steelers again emerged victorious in 1976, beating the Cowboys in SB X. A year later, SB XI placed the team that lost SB II (the Raiders) against a team that had lost three Super Bowls already (the Vikings). Oakland made Minnesota the first team to lose four Super Bowl games.

• The Cowboys, the only team other than the Vikings to lose multiple Super Bowls, won their second in 1978 against the Denver Broncos (who would go on to lose their first four Super Bowls, just like the Vikings). For the first time, co-MVP awards were given, as the heart of Dallas’ defense – Harvey Martin and Randy White – shared the honor.

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THE SUPER BOWL (continued): • The Steelers won back-to-back Super Bowls

once again by defeating Dallas in SB XIII and the Los Angeles Rams in SB XVI. Pitts-burgh QB Terry Bradshaw matched Bart Starr by winning the MVP award for both games. In 1981, the Oakland Raiders handily beat the Philadelphia Eagles in SB XV.

• The 1982 game was the first held in a cold-weather location. Luckily, Michigan’s Pon-tiac Silverdome was well insulated. SB XVI also brought two new teams into the game for the first time in a decade. The San Fran-cisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21. Dan Ross caught 11 passes, a record since tied but not bettered.

• Miami lost to Washington in 1983 to even its Super Bowl record at 2-2. The Redskins failed to repeat, however, and lost SB XVIII to the (then-Los Angeles) Raiders. The tro-phy then hopped across the Bay as the 49ers topped Miami to win SB XIX.

• Two ‘new’ Super Bowl teams faced off in 1986. The Chicago Bears rode their “Super Bowl Shuffle” to a decisive 46-10 victory over the New England Patriots. At the time, this was both the most points scored and the largest victory margin for the winning team.

• Denver returned to play in SB XXI, but fell to the N.Y. Giants despite a record 204 rush-ing yards from rookie Timmy Smith. Al-though the Broncos made it back to the big game the following season, Denver became the second team to lose back-to-back Super Bowls when the Redskins took SB XXII.

• SB XXIII was a rematch of the 1982 game, and the 49ers beat the Bengals again. MVP Jerry Rice set a still-intact record with 215 receiving yards. San Francisco repeated against the Broncos in 1990; it was the 49ers’ fourth win, and Denver’s fourth loss.

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THE SUPER BOWL (continued): • The early 1990s belonged to the Buffalo

Bills, who reached four consecutive Super Bowls beginning in 1991. Unfortunately, the team lost the game each time. The Giants won SB XXV while the Redskins took SB XXVI. The Cowboys topped the Bills in both 1993 and 1994, the first time the same two teams played consecutive Super Bowls.

• The 49ers played in the Super Bowl for an unprecedented fifth time in 1995, beating the San Diego Chargers. SB XXX gave the Cowboys an opportunity to avenge two pre-vious losses to Pittsburgh. Dallas won for the third time in four seasons and set a record by appearing in their eighth Super Bowl.

• In 1997, Green Bay got to the big game for the first time since the NFL-AFL merger. The Packers beat the Patriots as the Super Bowl made its first appearance on the Fox TV network. The Broncos surprised the fa-vored Packers a year later in SB XXXII, winning for the first time. Denver won again the following year over the Atlanta Falcons.

• Two relocated teams matched up in 1999, as the St. Louis Rams beat the Tennessee Titans (who came up just a yard short of tying the game on the very last play). Another moved franchise, the Baltimore Ravens, beat the Giants in 2000 to win in its first Super Bowl.

• Since then, you probably know the story. The New England Patriots have appeared in four of the last seven Super Bowls, winning three of them. The Steelers, Giants, and Colts returned to win Super Bowls too. Also victo-rious was one first-time entrant, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who took SB XXXVII in 2002. The Eagles, Bears, Raiders and Rams lost in that stretch, as did the Seattle Sea-hawks and Carolina Panthers. Who will win this year’s game in Tampa? You’ll find out when SB XLIII kicks off on February 1!

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Two friends paid $1,500 each forSuper Bowl tickets. When they

arrived at the game, they noticed anempty seat next to them, with an older

woman sitting on the other side.

A few minutes into the game, one ofthe men asked the lady if she knewwhy the seat was empty. “We paid$3,000 four ours,” he continued.

“It was my husband’s,” she replied.“He died recently, so I decided to cometo the game by myself to honor him.”

“Uh-huh,” said the man, “But couldn’tyou have given the ticket to a friend

or maybe a family member?”

“I offered it to everyone I knew,” shereplied. “Really, I did. But they all

decided to go to the funeral instead.”

1. Name the two Manningbrothers who led theColts and Giants to SuperBowl wins in the 2000s.

2. In what year isSuper Bowl L (50)scheduled to beplayed?

Unscramble this word:

L U B E M FThis word means: to losepossession of a football

F U M B L E

Mike Lodish and Don Beebe sharea Super Bowl record. They’veeach been to the big game six

times. Unfortunately, both havebeen on the losing end more oftenthan not. Lodish came up on theshort end in his first four trips to

the Super Bowl before winning inhis final two with the Denver

Broncos. Beebe hasperformed even more

poorly, winning only once(as a member of the

Green Bay Packers) inhis six appearances.

“Men, I want you just thinking ofone word all season. One word and

one word only: Super Bowl.”

~ attributed to Coach Bill Peterson

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THE SHAPES OF THINGS • Triangle: Christopher Columbus

was the first person to document something unusual about the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle. Ac-cording to an entry in his log book dated Oc-tober 11, 1492, Columbus observed “strange lights dancing on the horizon.” His crew also reported bizarre compass readings in the area. Scientists have since explained away Columbus’ fabulous claims, but nevertheless, the seeds of the legend of the Devil’s Trian-gle had been planted.

• Pentagon: When the game of baseball was first invented, home plate was a 12-inch square, just like the bases, but set in place like a di-amond. The two sides formed the beginning of the foul lines. In 1887, home plate was re-designed into a pentagon shape in order to aid the umpire in determining whether or not pitches were strikes or balls.

• Square: The game show that served as the blueprint for Holly-wood Squares was called The Ce-lebrity Game. Hosted by Carl Reiner, the program posted prestigious panelists includ-ing Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum, and Ro-nald Reagan. It failed to make a dent in the ratings, however, so it was re-tooled into a celebrity tic-tac-toe game with B-list celebri-ties like Wally Cox and Charley Weaver.

• Circle: Significant portions of Russia, Finland, Denmark, Nor-way, Sweden, Canada and the United States lie within the Arctic Circle. North of the Circle, the Sun is above the ho-rizon for 24 continuous hours during the Summer Solstice (around June 21), and be-low the horizon for 24 hours at the Winter Solstice (around December 21).

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• When you open an account, your interest rate will be disclosed to you, and the card company will be required to honor that unless your payments are late.

• No more universal default. If your credit score plunges due to not paying a different debt, the card companies can no longer raise your rate because of your payment record to others.

• If you have both purchases and cash withdrawals on your credit card at different interest rates, the banks will no longer be able to apply your payment only to the balance with the lowest rate while the other balance continues to accrue higher interest. Any payment amount over the minimum will be applied to the higher interest balance.

• There will be no more arbitrary middle-of-the-day cutoffs to accept payments. If a payment is received by 5 p.m. on a given day, it’s considered as being received that day.

• If there are to be changes to your account, you must receive 45 days notice.

• You must be given an adequate amount of time (21 days) to receive and pay your bill. • There will be no more two-cycle billing, where card companies have gone back to ding you with interest on the same amount a second time.

Suggestion: Use 2009 to get organized so that you’re never late on a payment again. Make more than the monthly minimum payments and get the balances paid off as soon as possible. Don’t give the card companies any reason to use their remaining loopholes to raise your rates. There’s a good chance that more people are going to be denied credit, as the card companies won’t be able to make as much money with questionable practices.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


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• Herpetologists can tell you that of all the victims of rattlesnake bites, only about half of them actually hear the telltale rattle before being bitten.

• It was famed Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare who made the following sage observation: “Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

• The “Guinness Book of World Records” used to have a category for how many live goldfish a person could eat at once, but it was eliminated. Interestingly, the reason for the elimination had nothing to do with cruelty to animals, but rather had to do with the difficulty of preventing cheating. It seems that some would-be competitors were breeding smaller and smaller fish for consumption.

• The word “alimony” is derived from the Latin word “alimonia,” which means “nourishment.”

• Those who study such things say that the month in which you are most likely to be shot, strangled or poisoned is December. They don’t seem to venture an opinion regarding why, however.

• On average, British women are shorter than women in the United States.

• Who among us isn’t familiar with the line, “Quoth the Raven, nevermore”? As virtually anyone who made it through middle-school English class can tell you, it’s from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem “The Raven.” Considering the ubiquitous nature of the work, though, you might be surprised to learn that Poe earned a grand total of $9 from the first publication of the poem.

• The brain of an ostrich is actually smaller than one of its eyes.***Thought for the Day: “Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.” -- Charles Peters


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5. Who wrote the classic children’s story “TheEmperor’s New Clothes”?

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New Year’s Eve 2007 is the second time that the nice folks at Charmin will provide 20 publicrestrooms for Times Square holiday revelers. Their comfort station is located at 46th and Broadway.

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THE SHAPES OF THINGS (continued): • Pyramid: The fastest clue-giver

to hit the Winner’s Circle on the long-running Pyramid game show is comedian Billy Crystal. In 1977, he set a record of 26 seconds, which still stands.

• Octagon: The red stop sign as we know it today became standard in 1954. The Uniform Traffic Control Devices manual specified certain shapes for certain types of signs. Since an octagon-shaped sign is more labor- and material-intensive to manufacture, it was assigned to the stop sign, since they’re installed less fre-quently than any other sign.

• Square: In 1982, frumpy high-school freshman Patty Greene was a character on the short-lived sit-com Square Pegs. Her bookish looks and nasal tone excluded her from the popular cli-ques at school. What a difference 16 years (and a nose job) can make. In 1998, the same actress played a glamorous fashion icon who wrote a steamy, self-help newspaper column on the popular series Sex and the City. That’s right; it’s Sarah Jessica Parker.

• Pentagon: Although the Pentagon is physically located in Arlington, Virginia, the USPS classifies it as being in Washington, D.C. The building has six ZIP codes, one for each department with-in: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Joint Staff, and Secretary of Defense.

• Triangle: North Carolina’s Re-search Triangle is anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The area earned its name for the trio of major universities found there (North Carolina, N.C. State and Duke), and for the numerous high-tech companies that have been built in the region since 1950.

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THE SHAPES OF THINGS (continued): • Pyramid: The fastest clue-giver

to hit the Winner’s Circle on the long-running Pyramid game show is comedian Billy Crystal. In 1977, he set a record of 26 seconds, which still stands.

• Octagon: The red stop sign as we know it today became standard in 1954. The Uniform Traffic Control Devices manual specified certain shapes for certain types of signs. Since an octagon-shaped sign is more labor- and material-intensive to manufacture, it was assigned to the stop sign, since they’re installed less fre-quently than any other sign.

• Square: In 1982, frumpy high-school freshman Patty Greene was a character on the short-lived sit-com Square Pegs. Her bookish looks and nasal tone excluded her from the popular cli-ques at school. What a difference 16 years (and a nose job) can make. In 1998, the same actress played a glamorous fashion icon who wrote a steamy, self-help newspaper column on the popular series Sex and the City. That’s right; it’s Sarah Jessica Parker.

• Pentagon: Although the Pentagon is physically located in Arlington, Virginia, the USPS classifies it as being in Washington, D.C. The building has six ZIP codes, one for each department with-in: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Joint Staff, and Secretary of Defense.

• Triangle: North Carolina’s Re-search Triangle is anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The area earned its name for the trio of major universities found there (North Carolina, N.C. State and Duke), and for the numerous high-tech companies that have been built in the region since 1950.

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Barbi Benton . . . . . . . 1/28/50

Greg Louganis . . . . . 1/29/60

Dick Cheney . . . . . . . 1/30/41

Nolan Ryan. . . . . . . . 1/31/47

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1. What NFL coach is 0-4 in the Super Bowl (while withthe Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons)?

2. What existing NFL team is the only one that was inthe league when Super Bowl I occurred but has nevereven made it to the big game?

3. What NFL franchise has won a Super Bowl for twodifferent cities?

4. What major U.S. city has been without an NFL teamsince its teams moved elsewhere in 1995?

5. What city will host its first-ever Super Bowl in 2012?

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PAW’S CORNERBy Sam Mazzotta

Betta Fish Didn’t Have to Die

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m writing regarding the column about the children who didn’t take care of their pet fish. It seems to me that the conse-quence of failing to take care of the Betta fish was that the fish died. Teaching the kids to be responsible is a won-derful thing; the parent was not being responsible.I didn’t see the original let-ter, but apparently the fish wasn’t being fed. The mother should’ve put it in her routine to accompany the kids daily to their pet-care chores and verify they were being ac-complished. If the kids didn’t want to do those chores, she could’ve given the fish away. And if she was unable to fit overseeing the pet care into her schedule, she should have never gotten the fish in the first place.I’m not accusing the mother of intentional animal cru-elty, but definitely of being irresponsible. How can she teach responsibility when she

wasn’t responsible herself ? In the long run, if neglect is the cause of the fish’s death, she, not the children, is re-sponsible. On the positive side, she is correct to not allow the kids to have another pet. Good for her on that count. -- Beth

BETH: That’s a sensible an-swer, Beth, and thanks. I got quite a few letters on this is-sue, many fairly hysterical. While I don’t condone the death of a pet due to ne-glect, I’m also quite sure the mother felt badly about what happened. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t have asked me for advice on getting another pet.That leaves one remaining question for my readers: How can her children prove to her that they are ready for anoth-er pet?

Send your tips, questions and comments to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or e-mail them to [email protected].


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Barbi Benton . . . . . . . 1/28/50

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