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January 21[edit]

Superbowl and cold weather stadiums[edit]

Someone once told me that the NFL does not schedule the Superbowl for non-enclosed stadiums where there might be cold weather/snow. So, two questions. Is this true -- does the NFL have a policy not to schedule the Superbowl in places like Lambeau Field (Green Bay) or Mile High (Denver). And if so, does next years game at MetLife_Stadium in New Jersey mean they've changed it? RudolfRed (talk) 00:14, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would call it more of a custom than a real policy; and, yes, that game will break that custom. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:10, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Our Superbowl article mentions this. Dismas|^(talk) 01:57, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the replies.

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RudolfRed (talk) 02:56, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Name of funny video clip played before Superbowls in the mid 1970's[edit]

Asking IF YOU CAN - Fine out Name of Funny Video Clip that I Remembered was PLAYED during the pregame before several Superbowls in the mid 1970's( 75-78 ) ABOUT a Country or Hillbilly man going to city and seeing his 1st football game and trying to make sense of the game( man talks about seeing fighting over pigskin ball and and not stepping in any cowpatties running around the field).

I think it might have been a NFL Films but not sure could have been a network clip, but it was cute video haven't seen it since I was a child. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjr1966 (talk • contribs) 02:34, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like What It Was, Was Football by Andy Griffith. Rmhermen (talk) 15:51, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen the andy griffith story on youtube with still, cartoon-style photos,, hand-drawn played in a slideshow format but thats not It,,. Now It may have been a updateing/retelling of his story in the 70's ,, the one they played in the 70's was a video clips from real games NFL Follies Style with a voice over as it played, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjr1966 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Was it This episode of Football Follies from 1976? It's been narrated by various Looney Tunes characters... --Jayron32 01:52, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No sorry thats was not it,,,,I remember that one too the guy tring to break the Ice like he was bruce Lee,,,,.

My most vivid memory of it was seeing a kick off return for a score as the player dodging thru defenders the whole way down the field as the voice over explained he thought the player was tring to avoid steeping in any cow manure in that green pasture (football field) he was running on. It went on and on like that. Now this could very well be an be a updateing/retelling of the Andy Griffith Story-Line in the 70's, I think I remember a younger Brent Musburger introducing the clip during pregame. - 68.99.88.39 (talk)

I want to know the name.....[edit]

I want to know the name of a film that is about two dudes that go to some redneck county and one of them is kinda obese and has self-esteem problems and they get into trouble with some rednecks and the obese guys gets rape by one redneck, who is pulling his ear and there is a river and a redneck drowns or so, and the two buddies go to to a police station and they promised they will never talk about what happened.....What´s the movies name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.166.108.122 (talk) 04:51, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deliverance. Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 05:00, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cue the banjos. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:46, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mystery critic[edit]

I'm mystified as to who the W.S. is who penned the 1942 New York Times movie review here. There are plenty of Times critics listed[1] with last names beginning with S, but none whose first name starts with W. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:44, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This mightn't help, but in the abstract the initials are rendered as "W. S. (); ". The brackets at the end makes me think that it contains an OCR error generated when the article was scanned. I love the NYT archive, but abstracts frequently contain typos due to the scanning process; text in italics in particular seems to suffer. Like I said, this probably doesn't help. :) FlowerpotmaN·(t) 23:38, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hadn't thought of that. It might be Theodore Strauss. He was critiquing films around that time, including another entry in the Kildare/Gillespie series.[2] Not good enough to update the reference, but thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:41, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]