Catching Up With the First Super Bowl Champion, Bart Starr
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Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr talks about Vince Lombardi, how football has changed and whether or not receiver Max McGee was hung over during Super Bowl I (which, by the way, wasn't even called the Super Bowl).
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hoped the son of a former Super Bowl quarterback would help them get their first victory. They got their wish. But it was not Chris Simms, son of 1987 Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms, who led the Bucs (1-4) to a 20-17 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. Simms, making his first NFL start, hurt his throwing shoulder in the first quarter and was replaced by Brian Griese, son of Bob Griese, who played in three Super Bowls.
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Dick Vermeil, who coached the St. Louis Rams to their first Super Bowl championship in 2000, doubts dirty tricks prevented the franchise from winning it all again under Mike Martz in 2002.
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The 1961 and 1962 N.F.L. championship games, each ending with a Green Bay victory over the Giants, gave the league some much-needed celebrity and personality.
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Richard Seymour was a 22-year-old rookie from the University of Georgia when he played in his first NFL season and promptly won a Super Bowl, aiding in the upset of heavily favored St. Louis by sacking Rams quarterback Kurt Warner for a 7-yard loss. Here's his view of the three championship seasons, and the current undefeated Patriots team as it ...
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Like any New England Patriots fan, Larry Studebaker wants his team to stomp the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl tomorrow. But as he watches the game, the Mattapan computer network engineer also will be rooting for three players in particular: wide receivers Deion Branch and David Givens, and quarterback Tom Brady.
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Apple Inc.'s 1984 TV commercial was named the best Super Bowl spot in the game's 40-year history, a Florida communications company said Wednesday.  The Jan. 22, 1984, commercial aired in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, launching the Macintosh personal computer.
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar  Hunt, the NFL pioneer who coined the term "Super Bowl," has  died at the age of 74.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Sometime today he will begin his sojourn to this coastal town just over the Georgia border. It won't be a long trip, not from his home in Columbia, S.C., but Julius Adams will have plenty of time to savor the pleasure that Super Bowl XXXIX promises. "I've got two teams in the Super Bowl," said Adams. "It's ...
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Mayor Tom Menino must be proud. His Boston Red Sox just won their first World Series in 86 years and his Hyde Park Blue Stars yesterday clinched their first Super Bowl berth in 32 years, defeating O'Bryant, 14-0. Who would have thought?
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When people think of the Green Bay Packers&#39; Super Bowl teams of the 1990s, the first player that usually comes to mind is quarterback Brett Favre, and with good reason.
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Torry Holt of the St. Louis Rams became the first player in NFL history with five straight 1,300-yard seasons when he caught a 44-yard touchdown pass near the end of the first half against the New York Jets on Sunday.
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The National Football Leagueâs pioneer globalizing expedition went even better than the leagueâs slick marketers could have anticipated.
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The 1980s band The Buggles sang, "Video Killed the Radio Star." In the NFL, radio communication could stunt the type of surreptitious video surveillance signal-stealing the Patriots engaged in during their season-opening victory over the New York Jets last Sunday.
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Even the most devout Patriots fan would be hard pressed to recall who served as the long snapper for Adam Vinatieri's winning 41-yard field goal in the Super Bowl last February. Lonie Paxton remembers because it wasn't him. Paxton was a spectator for Super Bowl XXXVIII, standing on the sideline in street clothes when hired hand Brian Kinchen ...
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Socrates, who lived back around the time of Papa Bear Halas, had the championship formula figured out a couple of millennia before Super Bowl I. "Know thyself," the Greek philosopher preached. Professional football teams and their followers may talk about philosophies and systems and programs, but success and failure essentially are questions of self-knowledge. In the NFL, identity usually determines ...
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Adam Vinatieri has some pretty big field goals to his credit, with the two Super Bowl winners in 2002 and '04. But what he did Sunday to start off the AFC championship game against Pittsburgh may have been tougher.