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Notebook Warning: Leave your foam fingers at homePosted: Wednesday January 30, 2002 4:34 PM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Linda Fletcher experienced her first heartbreak of the Super Bowl on Wednesday morning when the bellhop was removing her luggage from the cab at her hotel. "They said I couldn't take my foam finger to the game," the Boston woman lamented. "I've taken it to every game this season. It's the good luck charm that got the Patriots here." Lucky or not, the big foam hand in New England colors with a raised finger indicating No. 1, is banned from Sunday's game. Fletcher and all fans at the Super Bowl will have to do their cheering the old fashioned way -- clapping, stomping and yelling. As part of the heightened security at this year's event, fans are prohibited from bringing the giant fists, pompons, Frisbees, beach balls, banners, noisemakers and horns. "Are we allowed to paint our faces or is that considered a disguise?" Fletcher said.
Job searchRams quarterbacks coach John Ramsdell has a Super Bowl to deal with Sunday, then he'll interview with the Buffalo Bills for their vacant offensive coordinator job. Jay Zygmunt, Rams' president of football operations, said Wednesday the team granted the Bills permission to talk with Ramsdell. Under NFL rules, the Bills can't interview Ramsdell until the Rams' season ends. The Bills fired offensive coordinator Mike Sheppard after the regular season. Ramsdell, a native of Lancaster, Pa., has been with the Rams all seven seasons in St. Louis, serving as tight ends coach from 1995-97 and quarterbacks coach the last four seasons.
It's everywhereThe Super Bowl pregame, halftime, game and postgame will dominate the airwaves not just in the United States, but around the world.Sunday's broadcast will go to 166 countries, from Australia to Yemen, and reach an estimated audience of 800 million, according to the NFL. The broadcast will even be seen in spots as diverse as Vatican City and Vietnam, Brunei and Bulgaria, Cambodia and Canada, Iceland and India. The Super Bowl will be broadcast in 26 languages. Two Japanese stations will have 59 people at the game. And broadcasts will originate from the Superdome in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.
Been there, done thatRams quarterback Kurt Warner can sympathize with what Patriots quarterbacks Tom Brady and Drew Bledsoe are going through. Brady took over as New England's starting quarterback this season, stepping in when Bledsoe was injured. Warner got his start in 1999 after Trent Green got hurt in an exhibition game. "I hadn't really thought about it until the last couple of days when people asked me about it," Warner said. "Then, the more you look at it, it is a very similar situation." It's hard on quarterbacks put in that situation, Warner said, especially when they are friends, as he and Green are, and Brady and Bledsoe are. "I think they've handled it tremendously and Tom has played tremendously all year long," Warner said. "In my year, we won it all. I'm hoping his Cinderella story stops one game short."
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