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Friday. January 24,1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Coaches engulfed in spotlight as teams focus on Super Bowl
Holmgren stands tall after Lombardi statue loses head
Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A giant sand sculpture of Vince Lombardi lost its head yesterday, leaving Mike Holmgren's head towering alone in a mall.
"Lombardi's era is over," said Vera Sanders. 69, of DePere, Wis.
The 60-ton "Titletown Tribute" was inside the Bay Park Square Mall, and the collapse of Lombardi's head drew attention to the Packers, who play the New England Patriots in Sunday's Super Bowl.
"It's time for Holmgren to get his credits," Sanders said. "That is the way it is supposed to be."
hoimgren has coached the Packers to their first title game since Lombardi's team won the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968.
Until the sand bust of Lombardi came crashing down at the mall, he and Holmgren shared equal billing alongside the top of a replica Packers helmet.
Lombardi and his gap-tooth grin now peers out at gawkers near the bottom of the display, next to where "Titletown Tribute" is chiseled in Gothic letters.
It seems some of the sand must have been frozen when it was packed and gave way when it melted, causing the bust, weighing more than 550 pounds, to collarse.
Leaning alongside the giant helmet are the cheese wedge hats that some Packers fans wear at games.
Four artists from Sand-Tastic Promotions of Florida have spent most of the week packing, wetting and shaping the 120,000 pounds of sand hauled into the mall from a local gravel pit.
"We are hoping to generate a lot of foot traffic." said Amy McCarthy, marketing director for the complex of 70 stores. "Everyone wants to do something to
Many stores have said the Packers have saved their January, which is typically a slow time in retail."
Amy McCarthy retail mail marketing director
show their spirit and pride in the team," McCarthy said.
The mall paid $9,000 for the sculpture, which will be on display through March.
"Many stores have said the Packers have saved their January, which is typically a slow time in retail." McCarthy said.
As workers busied with the finishing touches on the sculpture — using dental tools for some of the finer details — people watched from nearby benches
Madeline Bork, 65, of Ashwaubenon, Wis., snapped two pictures for her scrapbook. She said she probably would come back for at least one more when it was completed.
As her 4-year-old son Joey watched in amazement, Bernice Stutz of Suamico, Wis., called the bust of Holmgren an excellent likeness: his left hand resting on his chin, his right arm clutching a clipboard to his chest, and his neck wrapped with headphones.
"I don't know how much more Packers-mania you can get," Stutz said.
Parcells emerges as the figurehead for New England
NEW ORLEANS — This Super Bowl comes with a twist.
Woven into the usual plot of an NFC team favored by two touchdowns is an odd central character.
A coach.
"You'd think it's the Packers against Bill Parcells," said Aaron Taylor of the Green Bay Packers, who are trying to bring a title back to Titletown, USA, and extend the NFC's Super Bowl winning streak to 13 games.
"Is he going to suit up or something?" Taylor asked.
Actually, quite the opposite.
it's a prospective divorce that has had Parcells on the defensive all week.
The Associated Press
Partells is the centerpiece not only because he is the best-known New England Patriot, but also because he's likely to leave the team after the game and return to New York — either as the coach of the Jets or as a network analyst.
He is, after all, a coach whose specialty is defense.
Beyond that, it's the same old storyline.
The 13-3 Packers come in as the latest NFC power, pursuing their first championship since Vince Lombardi's team won the second Super Bowl 29 years ago.
They were the preseason favorite to win it all, playing in the spotlight throughout the season and capturing the NFC title.
They have Brett Favre, the NFL MVP for the last two seasons, at
quarterback and a defense anchored by Reggie White, in his first Super Bowl after 12 seasons as one of the dominant defensive ends in league history. White has been the rallying point for the Packers — "Win one for Reggie."
The 11-5 Patriots come in as an incarnation of Parcells, much as those early Packers were an incarnation of Lombardi.
There are parallels — Lombardi's coaching career began at St. Cecilia's High School in Englewood, N.J., where Parcels was born. The Vince Lombardi service area on the New Jersey turnipke three miles from Giants Stadium, where Parcels first made his coaching reputation.
Yes, the Patriots have a good young quarterback in Drew Bledsoe and some other first-rate players: Curtis Martin, Terry Glenn, Willie McGinest, Ben Coates, Dave Meggett. But the common perception is that they wouldn't be here were it not for Parcels, who won the 1987 and 1991 Super Bowls with the New York Giants and is just the second coach — Don Shula is the other — to make it to this game with two different franchises.
Parcells even found himself part of the week's most embarrassing moment — a joint appearance with Patriots owner Bob Kraft, who tried to put a happy face on what probably is an imminent divorce. The result: a bad joke about Kraft giving Parcells a 10-year contract to run his paper business, and Parcells pretending he would close Kraft's biggest plant.
Ouch!
Ouch! By contrast, there is Green Bay's Mike Holmgren, a laid-back Californiaian who spent 12 years as a high school coach in the San Francisco Bay area.
In 1983, Parcells' first year as an NFL head coach, Holmgren was in his second year as quarterbacks coach at Brigham Young, tutoring a player named Steve Young.
Holmgren is one of the NFL's best coaches in his own right, a man who turned Favre from a wild thing who threw too many interceptions into one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
The Associated Press
Bill Parcells praises veteran Patriots
NEW ORLEANS — The toothy smile Bruce Armstrong is wearing this week makes it obvious that this is the highlight of his 10-year NFL career. For the low point, you have to ask.
"One and 15," the Patriots lineman says without pausing, recalling New England's 1990 season. "A lot of hard work. And nothing to show for it.
"Luckily, I was able to stick around long enough for a turnaround to take place, to play good football again," he said.
Armstrong is one of six Patriots who have been around long enough to remember the bad years before Bill Parcells became coach in 1993.
Armstrong is the only holdover from that miserable team at the start of the decade. He and
the other five — Scott Zolak, Ben Coates, Dwayne Sabb, Sam Gash and Todd Collins — survived the 1992 team that wasn't much better, 2-14.
"There are just six of us left. I'm fortunate to be one of the six," said Collins, a rookie linebacker in '92. "For whatever reason he decided to keep us, I'm glad."
Parcels usually doesn't get emotional when discussing his players, but he has shown a soft spot for those who joined the team before him.
"They've been here for the whole deal. They've gone through it all," Parcels said.
But it's not just sentiment that keeps them around.
anchor a team that was the youngest of the NFL's 12 playoff teams.
"Most of the guys are very unselfish guys, willing to help the young players," Parcells said. "I think the older players feel paternal in that way, and I think the younger players respond to that."
"They've been pretty good players over the years," Parcells said, "or they wouldn't be older players."
These days, the Patriots are mobbed wherever they go, babies are named after them and the mayor and governor fight over who gets to host a Super Bowl send-off. Not too long ago, though, they were barely recognized in public, and showing up at work wasn't fun.
Together, the six pre-Parcells holdovers help
So what was the problem?
"The recent history prior to my arrival here was what the problem was," Parcells said. "When you're 9-39, things aren't good. There's a lot of negativity that exists when you have circumstances like that."
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