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Fox revs up for Super Bowl
Young network sets game plan for showdown
NEW ORLEANS — At the center of attention as Fox televises its first Super Bowl, David Hill was musing about the network's sudden rise to prominence in sports coverage.
The Associated Press
"The bottom line is we don't take it too seriously," said Hill, president of Fox Sports. "We realize sports is fun, we realize sports is entertainment. We don't see ourselves as gods or visionaries. We're just trying to have a good time."
But make no mistake about it: Fox is taking this Super Bowl business seriously.
The still youthful network, which in the past year also has televised the World Series and Stanley Cup finals.
Hill reflected on the 2 1/2-year odyssey in which Fox had built a sports division from scratch and now has the biggest event in American sports, a telecast that certainly will provide the network with its largest audience ever.
plans at least eight hours of coverage for Sunday's game between the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers.
"The complexity of the operation was enormous," Hill said. "In all of '94, I had 16 days off, and that includes the birth of my daughter. To wake up at 2 a.m. with sweaty armpits was common. Ice cream and Tums was desert."
Hill said the effort was worth the work.
"Fox is now a real network," he said.
Fox's Super Bowl coverage begins at 1 p.m., five hours before the game, with the grandly named "All-Time All-Madden Super Bowl Team." The 1 1/2-hour taped show features cohosts John Madden and Pat Summerall.
The 3 1/2-hour live pregare show is one hour longer than NBC's coverage prior to the 1960 Super Bowl and will carry Fox up to the 6 p.m. game.
Hill predicted the highlight of the pregame show would be three video diaries giving an inside glimpse of the two weeks of preparations leading up to the NFL title game.
"I've looked at the first two, and they are fabulous," he said.
"This is something you've never seen before," added Scott Ackerson, producer of the pregame show. "If you're a football fan and you want to know what the players go through to get ready for this game, you won't want to miss it. We had access that
"Fox is now a real network."
David Hill President of Fox Sports
no one has ever had before at a Super Bowl."
"We've got enough to sustain the show for 3 1/2 hours," Ackerson said.
AKEENSON stugged on my question that Fox's pregame show, which also includes Madden's interviews with the two coaches and Jerry Glanville's look at the special teams, was too long.
we've got enough to show for 3/2 hours," Ackerson said. Once the game begins, Fox will have a record 29 cameras in place — compared to the usual 15 — but doesn't plan many visible changes in its philosophy, which Hill described as: "If we were sitting at home on the sofa watching TV, what would we want to see?"
Patriots to be prepared for a backfield battle
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — For a while, the Patriots' secondary was second-rate.
Willie Clay kicked a ball into an opponent's hands for a touchdown. Otis Smith began the season with the lowly New York Jets. Lawyer Milloy started on the bench. Ty Law endured coach Bill Parcells' criticism.
Today, that patchwork defensive backfield is a big reason New England is in the Super Bowl.
"They have grown together," defensive backs coach Bill Belichick said. "They have a good understanding now of how the defense is totally tied together in the coverage system and playing the run. We've gained in our confidence on a weekly basis."
That confidence will be challenged again Sunday when the Patriots play the Green Bay Packers for the NFL title. Brett Favre, the NFL's most valuable player for the second consecutive season, will be throwing to dangerous deep threats Antonio Freeman and Andre Rison.
Clay, a free safety who spent his other four NFL seasons with Detroit, said the Patriots planned to play man-to-man against the Packers receivers.
"We're just going to line up and play against these guys and see what they've got," he said. "We've been challenged by people all year, and so far it's worked out."
Nothing seemed to work early in the season.
Jacksonville had the ball at the Patriots 5-yard line with the score 13-6. But Clay picked off Brunell's pass with 3:43 remaining, and the Jaguars lost 20-6.
In the Patriots' first four games, they allowed five completions of more than 50 yards. Rison caught one of them when he was with Jacksonville, a 61-yard reception from Mark Brunell.
The Jaguars had three completions of 50 yards or more in that game. One, a desperation pass into the end zone, resulted in a touchdown when Clay, flat on his back, kicked the ball into the hands of Jimmy Smith.
Clay — and the entire secondary — did much better when the teams met again in the AFC championship game. This time.
But Milloy, a hard-hitting rookie safety, has been a starter since the seventh game. Smith, waived by the Jets, became the starting left cornerback in the 12th game.
Early in the season, injuries and poor play caused problems in the secondary.
And Law, last season's first-round draft pick, responded to Parcells' chiding him for not making a big play by coming up with two interceptions in the next to last regular-season game against Dallas.
In their last four games, the Patriots haven't allowed a touchdown pass and have had seven interceptions. And no completions covered more than 35 yards.
"It came together by the extra work that we put in," Law said. "Willie Clay's been a great leader back there. He calls all the shots, and we just follow his lead."
Packers tight end Keith Jackson doesn't think the youth of the starting secondary, with an average age of 25.5 years, makes it more susceptible to breakdowns.
"Coach Belichick does a great job of switching up coverages," Jackson said. "They play a lot of different coverages, and they disguise them very well."
The Patriots haven't given up more than 204 yards passing in any of their last six games.
In their last four games, they've allowed a total of 621 yards passing. And that includes just 278 in two playoff games.
Packers cheerleaders to go to Super Bowl thanks to fan reaction
The Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Chalk one up for the Green Bay Packers' cheerleaders.
News reports that the team's hometown cheerleading crew was being left out of the Super Bowl prompted a big reaction Tuesday, and now the 13-member squad is planning a trip to Sunday's big game after all.
"We'll be on the sidelines cheering during the game just like we do at Green Bay — to be the cheerleaders that we have been for the past five years," said Ann Rodrian, coach of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay cheerleading team.
She confirmed Tuesday night that plans had changed and arrangements were being made for the trip.
She said she had received telephone calls from near and far after news had spread that her team wasn't invited to the Super Bowl. And she suspects many calls also went to National Football League officials.
Instead of inviting Rodrian's cheerleaders, a company producing the pregame gala for the NFL had hired high school dancers from the Green Bay area to depict Packers cheerleaders on the field at the end of the show.
The high school girls are to dance with hundreds of other performers in the pregame show and then, as Packers' cheerleaders, form a tunnel that the Packers will run through as they enter the field, said Angela Herndon, a representative for American All-Star Inc., which is choreographing the show.
Rodrian said plans for pregame and halftime activities apparently had led to confusion about whether her cheerleaders would go to the game.
"We will not be in the pregame or halftime," she said. "We cheer during the game. I think that somehow it had become an issue."
The cheerleaders always are introduced at Lambeau Field as the UW-Green Bay cheerleaders, not as the Green Bay Packers' cheerleaders, Rodrian said. They seldom are seen on television broadcasts, and they are not listed in Packers programs.
She credited the news stories Tuesday with sparking public interest, which led Packers and NFL officials to meet and find a way to incorporate her cheerleaders into the game.
"People really seemed to take an interest in it," Rodrian said, citing the telephone calls she received from as far away as New York.
"We did not pursue it," Rodrian said. "Yes, we were disappointed that we weren't going to be included. On the other hand, we certainly have enjoyed cheering for the Packers and all the excitement that goes along with it."
Now the team plans to leave tomorrow afternoon on a 20-hour bus trip to New Orleans.
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