SYLVESTER IS BUFFALOED INTO PICKING BIG-TIME LOSER AGAIN
Gee, Curt, another Super Bowl, and here you are, picking a team from Niagara Falls. How appropriate, since every year in this debate you crawl into a barrel and hurl yourself into the water. Splash! Another loser. I don’t want to bring up last year, Curt, when...
When Bills’ Kelly Keeps Getting Better It’S Hard To Be Humble When Kelly Keeps Getting Better
TAMPA, Fla. — Jim Kelly knocks things over. He wakes up the whole football neighborhood. Noise follows him, it has since his mess-around days as a kid in western Pennsylvania, where his idea of fun was to strap on a helmet and attack his brothers. ARRRRRRRR! Even now, a millionaire quarterback in the biggest game of his life, he admits to a “linebacker’s mentality.” And given his thick neck, his broad torso, and his affection for a pitcher of beer, he might still become one.
Catch Me If You Canthe Receiver: Lofton Patternof Deceit Makes Him Puzzle
TAMPA, Fla. — When the coffee turned cold and the fruit plates were empty, the announcement came that the morning interviews were over. All around the huge ballroom, the Buffalo Bills headed for the exits. James Lofton stayed where he was, sitting at a table, surrounded by reporters. He answered more questions — about his age, about his years in Green Bay. Soon the room was half-empty, and the kitchen staff was collecting plates and clanging silverware. Lofton stayed, answering more questions — about being cut by the
Super Bowl Week Bottoms Out On Day 1
TAMPA, Fla. — Normally it takes a few hours before something really idiotic happens at the Super Bowl, but this being a short week and all, it took only five minutes. Here we were Tuesday morning, the sports media, just me and 3,700 of my closest friends, being herded into Tampa Stadium for our opening interviews with the New York Giants. And the first thing I saw when we walked on the field, dancing among the players in a tight black dress, black hat, black fishnet stockings and black leather boots, was “Downtown” Julie Brown from MTV. Doing interviews. Or trying.
No Escape From New Yorkmontana Can Only Watch From Sidelinesas An Era Ends
SAN FRANCISCO — On one sideline, the miracle man stood alone, watching, his back stiff, his hand throbbing, his body racked with pain. For the first time in most people’s memory, Joe Montana could do nothing about the finish of a championship game. Nothing but pray.
NO ESCAPE FROM NEW YORKMONTANA CAN ONLY WATCH AS AN ERA ENDS
SAN FRANCISCO — This is how an era ends. On one sideline, the miracle man stood all alone, his back stiff, his body racked with pain. For the first time in most people’s memory, Joe Montana could do nothing about the finish of a championship game. Nothing...
Danger Of Tv War? We Can Turn It Off
My grandmother, who grew up in Brooklyn, used to talk about getting the news during World War I, how the family would wait for the paper each day and read sketchy stories with no pictures.
Later, my father would talk about World War II, how the family huddled by the radio when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and how the news crackled from that old speaker in the wooden casing.
The War … Nothing Else Seems To Matter
In some ways, this is the hardest column I have ever had to write, hard because, for the first time in my life, I have no interest in writing it. This has never happened before. I love my work. I love wandering around the sports world, breathing in its funny drama, writing it down.
GAMES UNIMPORTANT, BUT IT HELPS US TO PLAY
So the question now becomes: What do we do with ourselves? All of us civilians, who are watching this most strange and awesome war on our television sets, what do we do? What is the right thing? The pictures, the voices, even at times the very sounds of war, live, in...Stay Connected
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