WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Hopefully it doesn't snow that bad. But a little trickle down, that would set the mood off pretty well."
Eagles center Jason Kelce ESPM
FACT OF THE DAY
The Ravens-Vikings game provided the fastest stretch of five touchdowns in NFL history. It only took two minutes and one second.
USA Today
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What was the previous record for most touchdowns in a day?
A: 87
- USA Today
THE MORNING BREW
Fans have mixed reactions toward cold weather Super Bowl XLVIII
This past weekend, NFL junkies and millions of viewers saw a handful of games affected by snowstorms that drilled the majority of the East Coast. Teams in the north and eastern U.S. watched their fields turn into frozen tundras, with jet-like body warmers scattered across the sidelines. The inclement weather caused commotion on and off the field, as well as on TV and social websites, where broadcasters and fans continually asked the question, "Do we want to see this type of weather come Super Bowl Sunday?"
If you don't know already, Super Bowl XLVIII isn't being played in a dome or in a warm weather climate, such as in Florida or Arizona, but at MetLift Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The home of the Giants and Jets will be the first stadium to intentionally host a cold weather Super Bowl.
People who are pro-winter weather for
By Matt Coxte mcorte@kansan.com
the Super Bowl argued online and on TV that the game would be more memorable. Their evidence came Sunday in the form of touchdowns — and a lot of them. Even though some games were played with the field under more than six inches of snow, and others played in negative temperatures, the teams managed to break an NFL record of touchdowns scored on a Sunday, with 90 touchdowns. One of the bad weather games, between the Ravens and Vikings, produced snow and freezing rain, but also produced five touchdowns in the last three minutes of play in what might have been the craziest finish to a regular season game in NFL history. Of course not all 90 touchdowns were the prettiest, but they made the game more
exciting and memorable than ever.
For every fan who loves watching a cold weather game, there is another fan who wants the best possible conditions. This way players don't have to struggle against any elements,
— only a cool breeze and maybe a runny nose. My question to fans that want this is, "Do you want to watch
Do you want to play
Arena League Football or do
Arena League Football or do you want to watch the National Football League?" In 1967, the NFL Championship game between the Packers and Cowboys was played at Lambeau Field with a temperature of -15 degrees. Even with the blistering conditions, the "ice Bowl," as it's better known, ended up being one of the greatest in history and is forever immortalized in the NFL.
My point from this is Super Bowls don't have to be 75 degrees and sunny to be good. If anything, it's the games where players have to test themselves against the environment and the opposing team that people remember the most. Come Feb. 2 I won't be rooting for the blizzard of the century or -35 degree temperatures to tarnish the Super Bowl, but I will be looking forward to the players battling winter weather.
This week in athletics
Edited by Chas Strobel
Wednesday
No Events
Thursday
Women's Basketball
Texas Southern
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Friday
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Saturday
Men's Basketball
New Mexico
6 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Sunday
Women's Basketball
Purdue
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Monday No Events
Tuesday No Events
Baylor's Briles unanimous as AP Big 12 coach of the year
FOOTBALL
all 20 votes in balloting by media members who cover the Big 12 on a regular basis.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Art Briles talked about winning games and championships when he became Baylor's coach six years ago.
Briles was the unanimous pick for the AP's Big 12 coach of the year award announced Tuesday. He got
Back then, the Bears didn't managed a winning record in their first 12 seasons in the Big 12, and those sure like lofty goals.
They are a reality now, with the Big 12 champion Bears (11-1) headed to the Fiesta Bowl to play UCF on Jan. 1 in their first Bowl Championship Series game.
"You have the plan and the vision and you love to see it come to fruition. If it does, it makes you look like you knew what you were talking about," Briles said. "We don't feel like we're at the mountaintop, though. We're still striving to be a respectable program year in and year out ... That'll never change."
With a 30-10 win over Texas on Saturday to close out 64 seasons at Floyd Casey Stadium before moving into a $260 million campus stadium next fall, the Bears clinched their first outright title in any league since the 1980 Southwest Conference championship.
That team had Mike Singletary and Walter Abercrombie playing for coach Grant Teaff.
This is the first 11-win season in school history, and the sixth-ranked Bears are making four consecutive bowl appearances
private school had won only 11 of its 96 Big 12 games — and were 35-101 overall in that span with four different coaches. The Bears were routinely at the bottom of the standings and were then mired in a 12-game conference losing streak, only a few seasons removed from a record 29 consecutive Big 12 losses.
During his introduction in November 2007,
Briles talked about the
Bears getting balligible and winning a Big 12 title.
The coach acknowledged then that "lip service is easy" but said he had a plan.
"I said it all along, this is a special team and it was going to take us places this year."
BRYCE PETTY Baylor quarterback
When Briles arrived in Waco, the
To be honest, when you have someone with that much of a
vision and determination for things, it's almost, whoa, that's too much," Bears quarterback Bryce Petty said after the Texas game. "But to be in the spot we're at with this team, I couldn't be more proud. ... I said it all along, this is a special team and it was going to take us places this year."
Petty was named the AP Big 12 offensive player of the year Monday, when the quarterback was joined on the All-Big 12 first-team offense by three teammates: offensive guard Cyril Richardson, Big 12 leading rusher Lache Seastrunk and top receiver Antwan Goodley. The Bears, with their fast-paced spread offense, are the FBS leader with 624.5 total yards and 53.3 points per game. They have four 70-point games and two other games with at least 63 points.
Briles, who turned 58 last week, has a 44-31 record at Baylor and last month got a new 10-year contract through the 2023 season.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Baylor coach Art Briles, center right, celebrates with the Big 12 trophy after their game against Texas, Dec. 7 in Waco, Texas.
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