OPINION
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Super Bowl Sunday
The most watched and
talked about sporting event of
the year airs this weekend; The
SUPER BOWL. I enjoy a good
football game, but why does the
big game always come on dur-
ing church time?
Some churches will call
church services off due to the
fact most of the congregation
will not be there. What a shame!
Others will start church ser-
vices an hour or so earlier,
where they can see the kickoff
at 6 p.m. That's an idea!
Some will even go to the
extreme of bringing a big
screen T.V. to the church's fel-
lowship hall and have soup and
sandwiches. I wonder how
many will be thinking about the
Lord's service, how many will
be thinking about the Titans or
the Rams and how many wiU be
thinking about the sandwiches.
Others will just plain, "lay-
out" of services Sunday night-
some with excuses and others
with none.
I hope the Holy Spirit is mov-
ing this Sunday night like He
did last Sunday night at our
church. No Super Bowl can
compare to the service we had
at our church.
I remember the first Super
Bowl game. My family was vis-
Ring relatives near Warm
Springs.Theoldblackand white
television was on. It was a game
between the Green Bay Packers
and the Kansas Cit] Chiefs. The
date was January 15, 1967 at
Memorial Coliseum in Los
Angeles.
The late Elijah Pitts scored
the first ever Super Bowl rush-
ing touchdown for Green Bay
before 61,946 fans. The Packers
went on to win the contest, 35-
10. Bart Starr, the Packers quar-
terback went 16 for 23 for 250
yards with two TD's and one
interception. Vince Lombardi
coached the Packers and Hank
Strata coached the Chiefs.
On August 14, 1959, Lamar
Hunt, a Dallas businessman,
called for the formation of the
American Football League. It
was organized and began play
in 1960.
Others in football thought
the idea of a new conference
was so crazy that they referred
to the new conference teams as
the "Foolish Club."
As it turned out, the
American Football League had
a profound effect on profes-
sional football.
On June 8,1966, the AFL and
the NFL announced a merger
and the two new conferences
played against each other at the
end of the 1966 season in the
first ever Super Bowl
The Dallas Cowboys have
appeared more than any other
team,eight times, in the Super
Bowl, winning 5 times and los-
ing 3.
has appeared six times but has
only won twice•
San Francisco 49ers (5) and
New York Giants (2) are unde-
feated in Super Bowl play as are
the New York Jets and the
Chicago Bears. Both of the lat-
ter teams have only appeared
once in the Super Bowl.
Buffalo and Minnesota are
winless in four super Bowls
tries. Cincinnati and New
England have lost twice each
while Philadelphia, LA Rams
and San Diego have each lost
their only appearance at the big
dance.
Atlanta lost its only appear-
ance in their 33 year history in
Super Bowl XXXIII.
Individually, Joe Montana
has gained more yards passing
than any other quarterback. In
1989 against the Cincinnati
Bengals, Montana was 23/36 for
357 yards. Steve Young leads
the Super Bowl with six touch-
down passes in 1995 against the
San Diego Chargers.
Timmy Smith leads the
Super Bowl in rushing yards in
1988 as he he carried the pigskin
22 times for 204 yards and two
TDs, when the Washington
Redskins defeated the Denver
Broncos, 42-10 in Super Bowl
XXII.
Roger Craig in 1985, Jerry
Rice in 1990 and 1995, and
Rickey Watters in 1995 all for
San Fransisco, and Terrell
Davis in 1998 for Denver all
scored three touchdowns, mak-
ing 18 points a Super Bowl high.
Don Chandler in Super Bowl
II, 1968 for Green Bay hit four
field goals and three PATs for
fifteen points, a record for a
field goal/extra point kicker.
The largest crowd ever to
attend a Super Bowl was at the
Rose Bowl in Pasadena on
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'Who Has A Benjamin Air Rifle?'
Well, now, I believe it was
Thomas Wolfe who said, "You
can't go home again." For what-
ever it's worth, I disagree with
old Tom. You can go home
again; the only thing is you
might not know it when you get
there•
I remember the first time I
went back to the big house in
Antangaville, Alabama, where
I lived until we moved to
Georgia in 1925. The house had
a long hall where you could ride
your tricycle for hours. Out in
the back yard was the biggest
oak tree that ever grew.
Well, I was back, but the
"big" house changed to just a
small frame house. The long
hall where I had ridden my
faith£ul tricycle to rescue girls
in distress was so short that if
you were not careful when you
sent in the front door you would
step out into the backyard and
see that the giant oak was just
ordinary and could be found all
over Georgia and Alabama.
Such things do happen even
in later life. Back years ago
some of us would save a few
bucks and go to Panama City,
Florida. There I knew where
the best shrimp were and good
deviled crabs. Knew it, as they
say, like the palm of my hand.
The wife and I went there for
our first honeymoon and I did-
n't know up from down. If it
had not been for the wife find-
ing our reservation, we would
have spent our first night
parked by the Gulf talking, no
doubt, about the great oak I
knew in Alabama.
Last year, we went back for
a third honeymoon, but that
time I played it smart and did
not open my fool mouth until
we were safely in our reserva-
tion. Things do change, some-
times in the mind, sometimes
actual, and as we approach
senility, who can tell the differ-
ence?
Sometime back, we tried to
do a bit about dirt roads and
there is one I left out that has
haunted me ever since• It was
not really a road, but a cow trail.
It started at the Ware house and
went to the pasture where we
played ball. So far as I remem-
ber, we never had a real base-
ball. We bought some
McConnels, but they were
stuffed with cottonseed hulls
and after a few Licks they were
knocked flat and whompy-
jawed. We made our own by
wrapping string around the
core of a golf ball and they did
very well. The road started as
bit. For some reason ii
now (I guess the devil lct'o
do it), I put in just tw fte
and shot Crawford w _
sits down for break ,c
yowled, jumped andd[: e
• S a
red I trmd to hi
• . . . 11
Benjamin rifle to Sa us
but he refused. Crawfng-v.]l, 1 th
back ready to do battl E h
is hard to do battle w le
, S
bing your taft wxth botlei r
Crawford was huffy f0[ly
days, but we were sti11'o
I think it did him good, -
he was elected as outl';"
sentative, where he haS[e,,L
yOU turned off the highway at
the Ware's house. A car could
drive down in dry weather. On
the left was the cotton gin and
a few other buildings. On the
right was the Ware house, with
Robert Ware's scrap pile• I
remember many a day going
all over town to find scrap iron
to sell. The proceeds were
spent at William's cafe.
One day, returning from a
hard-fought baseball game, I
was walking behind Crawford
Ware. It so happened I had
Frank Latimer's Benjamin air
rifle in hand. You don't see them
now, but the BB was propelled
by compressed air and, with
well and with dignity. 'or
Well, I went back agt
dirt road is now
the cotton gin is gone,
Ware house is gone.
ball field. Houses
along Ware Street, as
called. Nothing
tnle.
rye often wonderedi
put in four pumps, if C
would have been elect{
ernor. But perhaps it isi
now. The target is soa
larger now, but I sti
miss, and
world would I find
air rifle?
Lessons Learned About Georgia Schools
President Roosevelt told cottage in which I lived, a very might have been misle
people in private meetings as young man came up to the the true state of affairs]
well as in public ones that he porch and said, 'May I speak not been the sort to ssl
learned lessons from simple to you, Mr. Roosevelt?' and I such experiences. He Ulrs
made is
conversations. Roosevelt once said, 'Yes.' so. In 1938 heGeorgianla
told Fred Botts (according to "He came up to the porch speech in ( o
Athens)
Turnley Walker), as they and asked if I would come over University in "
relaxedinfrontofthefireplace to such and such town not he said this:
in his cottage, "Down here at very far away from here-- and "Years ago, whe
Warm Springs I can't general- deliver the diplomas at the came to Georgia, I wasp
ize the way a politicians sup- commencement exercises of a distinguished citizennI
posed to. A national problem the school. State that public school
strikes me as simply people "I said, 'Yes'; and then I
somewhere needing help. What asked, 'Are you the president "...children, whose becauseti°n waSthereWellwasPrOvid{"'a la a
people? Where? What kind of of the graduating class?' He parents who wanted perhaps it was in th
help?... The national farm prob- said, 'No, I am principal, of the them to wor,]ff, ad Constilaonitm,- p
lem? What about Ed Doyle up school,' of going to School, that every child shout6
there on Pine Mountain? The 'I said, 'How old are you?' full school year -- an 4 t
bank? Well, what sort of trou- He said, 'Nineteen years.' could stay away from attendance for each '
ble does Uncle Henry "I said, 'Have you been to school with complete year through all the y
Kimbrough have with his Little college?' He answered, 'I had grade school and into !
bank over there in Chipley?" my freshman year at the immunity..." schools was compulso
One of Roosevelt's favorite -University of Georgia.' were teaching under him were "But I soon discove
tales about what he learned in "I said, 'Do you figure on gettingless than three hundred as I might have known
Georgia encounters had to do going through and getting a dollars a year. I said to myself, should -- that school
with education. He told it many degree?' He said, 'Yes, sir, I will 'Why do they have to pay that school in the rural distr
times in public and private, for be teaching school every other low scale of wages? ... I began was open only four mo$
simple as well as sophisticat- year and going to college every realizing that the community five months a year -- a
ed listeners, varying it a little other year on the proceeds.' did not have any purchasing too small to hold all tM
but not much. This is a 1937 "I said, 'How much are they power..." dren that wanted to go t
version, from a dedication paying you?' And the principal NOW, OBVIOUSLY could not employ e
speech for a black school in of that school said, 'They are Roosevelt could have learned teachers -- or that chi
Warm Springs. very generous; they are pay- about the sad state of educa- whose parents who W
"IT WAS WAY back in 1924 ing me three hundred dollars tional facilities and the lack of them to work instead of
[his first visit] that I began to a year.' purchasing power in the rural to school, could stay awa
learn economics at Warm "Well, that started me think- South in other ways. But such school with complete ira
Springs. Here is how it hap- ing. Three hundred dollars for firsthand experiences were ty..."
pened: One day while I was sit- the principal of the school. That probably better learning expe- (Next week: The birtl
ting on the porch of the little means the three ladies who riences. For that matter, he of REA)
January 30, 1983 when 103,667
ml, i i i
paid to watch Joe Gibbs e
Washington Redskins defeat
DonShula'sMlamiDolphins,27- You Gotta Drawer the Line Somewh
17, in Super Bowl XVII.
On January 9, 1977, 103,438
paid to see Bud Grants A report by Knight-Ridder Soldier came to $1,452.10 WOULD BE to try and f.
Minnesota Vikings lose to John newspapers said it's costing There were a few things in war while wearing dt
Madden's Oakland Raiders, 32-
14 in the second largest crowd $750 million a day to operate the graphic I had to question, drawers.
at a Super Bowl. It was also Operation Desert Storm. One is, why does a canteen You can't just stop
played in Pasadena. Of course, the U.S., which cover ($8.95) cost more than desert, pull down your dl
Sunday night at 6 p.m., the stands for Ultimate Sugar the canteen itself ($,5.45)? trousers ($14.40), and p
NTC Champions, St.Louis Rams Daddy, is paying for most of it. And if we issue a soldier a your droopy drawers.
will face the AFC Champions, It is difficult for me to deal belt ($6.60), why does he also I couldn't locate a mi
Tennessee Titans in Atlanta in with a notion like $750 million need suspenders ($6.95)? expert, retired or otherwiJ
SUPER BOWL XXXIV. a day. Even "$750 million a The thing that concerned speak on this subject.
Hope to see you in church- month" is bewildering, me most, however, was what There's nothing were all tied up with th
thereis always the second half! I probably could handle we're paying for a soldier's worse than a cheap works.
"$750 million a decade," drawers, pair of drawers. Wear But I think it is a darnl
shame we don't think en
because that's what the aver. Out of the $1,412.10 being them a couple of of our boys on the battlet
age baseball player makes spent on the combat outfit, a
these days. measly $1.50 is spent on a sol- times and the elastic to give them a proper,
I was further confused by dier's underwear, waistband stretches tional pair of drawers.
a graphic that accompanied the
Knight Ridder article. HAVE YOU PRICED men's and suddenly you're 1T'SSUSTLIKEOUR,
It pictured an American drawers lately? Put a "Calvin wearing ... "droopy ERNMENT to go hog-wi
male soldier in full combat gear Klein" or "Ralph Lauren" tag drawers." canteen covers and
and what each part of that gear onthem andthey cost youtwen- penders, but basically ignC
cost. Here're some examples: ty bucks or more. of clothing, commonly known much more important it€
Nondesigner drawers cost as "droopy drawers." underwear.
• Desert helmet: $103 anywhere from ten to eighteen Ten times a day they fall I don't know what we
• Helmet cover: $2.50 bucks, down from the waist to just do here a home unless it's
• Boots: $33.20 And the ones we've giving north of the knees. You have to If you've got a man iri
• Socks: $1.65 our soldiers cost only a dollar- go to the men's room, take off desert, send him some ct
• M-16 rifle: $475 fifty? your pants, and pull up your ers. _,
• Two-quart canteen: $,5.45 drawers. Even if you can't
aft
• Canteen cover: $8.75 THERE'S NOTHING This causes the loss of valu- Calvins or Ralphs, there
• Belt: $6.60 WORSE than a cheap pair of able time in the workplace, not many more less expe
• Suspenders: $6.95 drawers. Wear them a couple to mention considerable irri- fruits of the looms avail
of times and the elastic waist- tability, and they won't become dr0
THE TOTAL ESTIMATED band stretches and suddenly Operation Desert Dra
COST of outfitting a U.S. you're wearing a most annoy- IMAGINE HOW IT It's time to act.
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