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...Super Bowl got its name: "If Commissioner [Pete] Rozelle, the acknowledged father of the Super Bowl, had his way, it would have been called the AFL-NFL Championship Game, which isn't so much a name as a description. Briefly, there was some sentiment in favor of The Big One, which, at best, sounds like something on a fast-food chain's menu. Then [Kansas City Chiefs owner] Lamar Hunt got into the picture... Around the time of the merger negotiations, Hunt saw his son and daughter playing with a new ball from Wham-O that was almost impossibly bouncy...
...Legends of the NFL's Greatest Game Ever
...problem that I don't know anything about football. "They've heard all the football things. What can be more intriguing to them is what you do." So together we crafted a story from journalism, and then, with nothing but a dream, grit and a connection at the NFL Network, I went off to try my speech on famous football players...
...started with seven-time Pro Bowler, NFL Network analyst and Super Bowl XXXIV winner Marshall Faulk. "It won't work on me," said Faulk before I even started. "I've never sat there and really paid attention to what was being said. If I'm playing in the Super Bowl, and I've dreamed about it as a kid, what's the inspirational speech for? It's like giving Barack Obama a speech right before the Inauguration. 'I'm going to get you motivated, Barack!' Are you serious?" This was not the inspirational speech a man needed before delivering...
Wanting to test my speech on someone who had actually listened to a motivational speech before, I called Rod Woodson, an 11-time Pro Bowler, NFL Network analyst and Super Bowl XXXV winner. "Everybody is not Marshall," Woodson said. "A lot of guys under pressure can fall to pieces if someone is not kicking them in the rear to get them going." I gave Woodson the old Clooney rallying speech, and the disadvantages of having an audience who listens became clear. "I'd give it a C minus," said Woodson. "You need a little more emotion behind...