NY Giant inside linebacker Harry Carson was on the team that defeated the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV. It was the Giants’ second Super Bowl championship.
James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of Interior, changed the department seal in 1982 so that the buffalo faced right. His press secretary commented that “He thought the right side should have equal time.” Jay Hair, head of the National Wildlife Federation, retorted that “’The fact that he didn’t replace the buffalo with a bulldozer indicates that at long last James Watt may be moderating his views toward wildlife.”
James Watt was said to consider a “wilderness area” to be a parking lot with no lines painted on it.
Safety Dean Marlowe of the Carolina Panthers attended college at James Madison. Marlowe will play in Super Bowl 50 tomorrow.
Super Bowl 50 is the first Super Bowl in history to use Arabic instead of Roman numerals, the main reason being that “Super Bowl L” would look awkward in advertising.
On August 12, 1926, pitcher Wayland Dean of the Phillies started the game agasinst the visiting Reds. Cincinnati scored two runs in the second and four in the thirs, to take a commanding lead, after the Phils scored two in the bottom of the first. Dean remained in the game through 7 innings, before being relieved by Ed Baecht. But the damage was done, the Phillies lost 9-2, Dean’s ninth loss of the season against six wins. The Phils remained in last place, 20 tames behind the front-running Cardinals, who went on to play in their first World Series in history, which they won when Babe Ruth ws thrown out trying to steal second base in the ninth inning.
The Cincinnati Bengals have been to the Super Bowl twice, XVI and XXIII, losing to the San Francisco 49ers both tomes.
Amendment XVI of the US Constitution enables Congress to levy an income tax without regard to population distribution in the states.
Freemen-on-the-land argue the Amendment was not properly ratified and is not in force.
The IRS and the federal courts beg to differ.
Coach Marv Levy led the Buffao Bills to four straight Super Bowl appearances. losing all four.
Coach Don Shula led the Miami Dolphins to three straight Super Bowls. The Dolphins lost the first, Super Bowl VI, 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys. To date that is the only Super Bowl where a team failed to score a touchdown. Even the vaunted ‘85 Bears gave up a touchdown in Super Bowl XX to the New England Patriots, winning 46-10. Back to the Dolphins’ three straight, they won Super Bowls VII and VIII, 14-7 over the Washington Redskins, and 24-7 over the Minnesota. Miami and Buffalo are the only teams to have appeared in three straight Super Bowls, and Buffalo is the only team to appear in four straight.
The Mustang Ranch Brothel at 1011 Wild Horse Canyon Dr. in Sparks, NV is open 24/7. Contrary to a popular urban legend, the Mustang Ranch was never operated by the US government.
28-24, Super Bowl XLIX: New England beat Seattle.
24-21, Super Bowl XXXIX: New England beat Philadelphia.
31-24, Super Bowl XXXII: Denver beat Green Bay.
37-24, Super Bowl XXVI: Washington beat Buffalo.
24-7, Super Bowl VIII: Miami beat Minnesota.
24-3, Super Bowl VI: Dallas Beat Miami.
These are all the Super Bowls where the final score included 24.
Although William McKinley was the 24th person to become President of the United States, “President #24” is generally considered to refer to Grover Cleveland.
Four current NFL teams have never appeared in a Super Bowl, including franchise relocations and renaming: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans. However, both the Browns (1964) and Lions (1957) had won NFL championship games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl.
Dhanin Chearavanont is the richest man in Thailand; he controls several major companies, e.g. CP All which has the 7-Eleven franchise for all of Thailand and helps operate more than 8000 stores. Dhanin’s fortune dwarfs that of Thailand’s most famous billionaire, the fugitive terrorist Thaksin Shinawatra.
28 of the NFL’s 32 franchise teams have played in the Super Bowl. Four franchises have played in eight Super Bowls each, the most of any teams: the Dallas Cowboys were the first to play in eight; and they were followed by the Pittsburgh Steelers, then the New England Patriots, and then finally this year in Super Bowl 50, the Denver Broncos.
In the creation myth of the Hopi indians, Tawa the Sun Spirit and Creator is the source of the universe. Tawa created his nephew Sotuknang, who created Spider Grandmother. Proto humans are lead from one world to the next by Spider Grandmother, each time falling into iniquity and being destroyed, with only the virtuous escaping with Spider Grandmother to the next world. Three worlds were created and destroyed this way, and finally Spider Grandmother caused a hollow reed to grow into the sky, and it emerged in the **Fourth **World through a hole in the ground, called a sipapu. The people then climbed up the reed into this world, emerging from the sipapu.
The Super Bowl is an imaginary event, whose Spirit and Creator is worship of the almighty dollar, affixed firmly at the top of the Totem Pole of western retro-civilization. An ancioent traditional football game is played as a sideshow to the media potlatch.
Over 180 million people are expected to watch Super Bowl 50 today.
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The earliest known pocket watch dates from 1530.