The James Logan Courier

By Ian O'Connor
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.&38212; They say you do not get to pick the moment in sports; the moment picks you. This time around, the fickle forces of fate picked Tom Coughlin's Giants, of all people, cast as a band of unworthy hosts basking in the Patriots' glow.

The Giants have won two titles in the last 50 years, and the Patriots have won three titles in the last six. If Coughlin needed a reason to play this game for keeps, here was one:

History gives you only so many chances to leave a footprint. Having won all of six championships in their 80-odd years of football, the Giants were handed the most cherished of holiday gifts, a pressure-free crack at a forever place in the game's lore.


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Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh

From wikipedia:Bert Parks (December 30, 1914 – February 2, 1992), an American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer and host, is best known as the longtime host (1955-1979) of the annual Miss America Pageant telecast.

Born Bert Jacobson in Atlanta, Georgia, Parks got his first broadcasting job at age sixteen, for Atlanta's WGST radio. He moved to New York when he was nineteen. He was hired as a singer and straight man on The Eddie Cantor Show before becoming a CBS radio staff announcer. Parks became the host of Break the Bank, which premiered on radio in 1945 and went on to television from 1948-1957, and http://www.jameslogancourier.org/nucleus/images/button-italic.gifStop the Music on radio in 1948, and on television 1949-1952.

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