"For the Vancouver Whitecaps, Soccer Bowl 1979 began with howls of execration raining down on them. Only a week before they had committed the sin of knocking the Cosmos out of the playoffs. And on Saturday afternoon the 50,699 fans at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N. J.—all but a few of them Cosmos supporters—showed that they were still choking on the fearful truth that, so sorry, no Franz, no Giorgio, no Bogie would be around when the trophy was presented.
But there it was: Vancouver against the Tampa Bay Rowdies. All right. Tampa you could live with. In four trips to the Meadowlands, the Rowdies hadn't won. In losing at last year's Soccer Bowl 3-1, they had been a punching bag for the Cosmos."
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Who watches Glee anyway? (oh, Liz does)
There are no Jets on the field.
hah, Christina screwed up the anthem, didn't she?
I just watched Lombardi on HBO, a New Yorker saved the Packers. I'll bring that up at the Palooza.
Tomorrow, or the next day, many of these dudes won't even be on the Packers or Steelers ever again, just saying.
Way to go Marshall!
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