Hawaiian NFL player Max Unger was the starting center for the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII.
The Seattle Seahawks logo is based on Pacific Northwest Native American carvings of Raven, a totem animal prominent in mythology for its creative power. However a Seahawk is properly an osprey and not a raven.
When the Seattle Seahawks joined the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1976 expansion, they were in the NFC West division for one season. They then moved to and played within the AFC West division from 1977 to 2001. They moved back to the NFC West division in 2002. The Seahawks are 1-2 in Super Bowls. They lost Super Bowl XL to the Pittsburgh Steelers, won Super Bowl XLVIII over the Denver Broncos, and lost Super Bowl XLIX to the New England Patriots.
One would think so, but he’s from Illinois.
The two-deep zone defense on a 4-3 front known in the NFL as the “Tampa 2” was invented by Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy and defensive coordinator Monty Kiffin.
Hoomanawanui’s father, Isy, is Hawaiian.
Starting with Super Bowl XIX and the San Francisco 49ers’ 38-16 win over the Miami Dolphins, the NFC reeled off 13 straight wins. That ended in Super Bowl XXXII and the Denver Broncos’ 31-24 win over the Green Bay Packers. That, in turn, began a string of ten years where the AFC won 8 of those 10 Super Bowls. In their one and only Super Bowl appearance to date, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were one of the two NFC teams to win during that stretch, defearing the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in Super Bowl XXXVII.
In Tibetan Buddhism, a kapala is a bowl made from a human skull. They were often carved or elaborately mounted with precious metals and jewels.
Kapalas are used mainly for esoteric purposes such as rituals. Among the rituals using kapalas are: higher tantric meditation to achieve a transcendental state of thought and mind within the shortest possible time; libation to gods and deities to win their favor; by Tibetan Lamas as an offering bowl on the altar, filled with wine or blood as a gift to the Yidam Deity or all the Deities; and the Vajrayana empowerment ceremony.
Football helmets have had facemasks since their introduction in the 1930s, although player slowly adopted those newer helmet designs. The helmet protects the head, skull and brain structures. Every player in every Super Bowl ever played has worn helmets with face masks.
The helmets of ancient Greek, Trojan and Roman soldiers featured a tall crest, often of horsehair, to add height and intimidate the enemy. This crest is seen clearly in the American Express logo featuring a Roman centurion, and on logos of teams and products named Trojan.
The location of the 5,000 year old Troy was not known until the 1870s. Most of what is regarded as the history of Troy is legend, created by their long-time rivals. Helen of Troy almost certainly did not exist, nor did the Trojan Horse. Even the Trojan Wars were probably no more remarkable than any skirmishes between adjacent cultures projected over millennia.
As a recurring character on The Simpsons, Troy McClure starred in such films as The Electric Gigolo, Gladys the Groovy Mule and The Greatest Story Ever Hulaed.
Fulton Oursler, who wrote such historical religious novels as The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written: The Old Testament Story and The Greatest Faith Ever Known also wrote a series of mysteries under the pen name of Anthony Abbot, with the titles all starting with “About the Murder of…”
In the last game of the 1974 college football season, USC tailback Anthony Davis started an amazing rally which brought USC back from a 24-0 second quarter deficit against #4 ranked Notre Dame, to a 55-24 win. Davis had scored 26 of the Trojans’ first 27 points.
In 1974, Heisman Trophy ballots were due prior to the end of the season and before that year’s USC-Notre Dame game. Anthony finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting to Archie Griffin.
From that day forward, Heisman voting would take place after all the regular season games had been played. Anthony Davis never played in a Super Bowl, although he played two games for the 1979 Los Angeles Rams. That Rams team went on to play in Super Bowl XIV, losing 31-19 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Founded in 1311, the Santa Cruz Monastery is a National Monument in Coimbra, Portugal. Because the first two kings of Portugal are buried in the church it was granted the status of National Pantheon. St. Theotonius founded this community of canons regular and served as their first prior.
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Super Bowl 50 is being played tomorrow in Santa Clara, CA. It will be the second-ever played in the San Francisco Bay Area, after Super Bowl XIX, January 1985 in Palo Alto. Both the South Florida Metropolitan Area and New Orleans have hosted the most Super Bowls at ten each. The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area has hosted seven Super Bowls. Including tomorrow, Florida has hosted more Super Bowls than any other state, 15. Tampa has hosted 4, and Jacksonville 1. California has hosted the second most, 12 – San Diego has hosted 3 of them.
The*** alto ***saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano. The alto saxophone is commonly used in classical music, military bands, marching bands, and jazz.
When Clarence Clemons was nine, his father gave him an alto saxophone as a Christmas present and paid for music lessons. Clemons later switched to baritone saxophone and played in a high school jazz band. His uncle also influenced his early musical development when he bought him his first King Curtis album. Curtis, and his work with The Coasters in particular, would become a major influence on Clemons and led to him switching to tenor saxophone.
The Grambling State University Marching Band has performed at the most Super Bowl halftime shows, featuring in six shows including at least one per decade from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Harry L. Dinkle was created as a comic strip band director, by Tom Badiuk, the creator of Funky Winkerbean. Badiuk, proud of his high school service as a trombonist in a marching band, went on a campaign to restore marching bands to their rightful place on TV during half-time of college football games. The Dinkle character gave legs to the campaign, and some half-time band coverage got restored as a result.