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By BEN CATES and The News & Advance - Associated Press - Saturday, February 6, 2021
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - Juan Thornhill stood in the stands on a Sunday night in February last year. His Kansas City Chiefs had just emerged from the tunnel to play San Francisco in the Super Bowl.
Thornhill cheered. Then he fell silent. Started thinking about all he was missing after an ACL injury cut his rookie season short three games prior to the Super Bowl.
Instead of fulfilling his childhood dream, he was just one of 62,000 fans at Hard Rock Stadium.
While the rest of the country focuses on Super Bowl LV, where veteran Tom Bradyâs Tampa Bay Buccaneers will duel rising superstar Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa, local leaders are looking far downfield â to when the big game returns to Glendale.
Super Bowl LVII is scheduled for Feb. 5, 2023, at State Farm Stadium. This will be the third time the city has hosted the biggest party in sports, with previous Glendale Super Bowls in 2008 and 2015.
In 2023, âI think any repeat visitors will be blown away,â said veteran Councilwoman Joyce Clark.Â
âItâs going to look totally different,â City Manager Kevin Phelps said.
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Super Bowl XXVII Nike, “Hare Jordan”
I haven’t watched the Super Bowl since I was a wee little one; despite growing up in a sports-loving household, I was the typical dork who got excited about the event only because I knew it was a chance to watch TV for more than three hours straight and eat tons of junk food. But as with most kids, I only really cared about the commercials, anyway. And the last one that sticks in my brain from the days before double digits is
“Hare Jordan,” the Nike ad that saw Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan team up to clown on some dim-witted knuckleheads. It was basically a minute-long Looney Tunes, complete with sound effects, albeit transposed to an exciting (for the time) real-world setting. I remember thinking it was funny and promptly forgetting about it that is, until a couple years later, when they took that idea and made a whole movie out of it. Perhaps you’ve heard of
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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Sunday.
Photo: David Eulitt (Getty Images)
It’s that time of year again.
You’d be forgiven for forgetting what month it is, but it is somehow already February, which means the Super Bowl is once again upon us. For folks with cable, streaming the Big Sports Event which will begin Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS and will see the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers should not be an issue. But for cord-cutters, and particularly those with limited streaming subscriptions, you’ll want to make sure you have a decent wifi connection and access to the right apps and services ahead of time so you’re not left scrambling at kickoff.