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Page 12/The Battalion/Monday, January 14, 1985 Super Bowl XIX TANK M‘NAM1R by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds No umbrellas will be allowed into Stanford Stadium on Super Sunday United Press International SAN FRANCISCO — Into every one’s life a little rain must fall, de creed the wise man. Into everyone’s face and down the back of everyone’s neck a little rain must fall, decreed the National Foot ball League. No umbrellas will be allowed in side Stanford Stadium next Sunday for Super Bowl XIX. All 85,000 fans entering the stadium will be searchea. Anyone caught with a handgun, a pocket-sized hydrogen bomb or an umbrella will be turned away. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle made the ruling, citing two reasons. First, he doesn’t want the fans’ view of the Field blocked by the can vas-covered metal rods. And, for Reason No. 2, he revived every mother’s frantic warning to their 10-year-old son, “Put that thing down Johnny, before you put your eye out.” Logically, if enough people got poked in the eyes by sharp-tipped umbrellas at the Super Bowl, it would then become OK to use um brellas, since no one could see the field anyway. The NFL cited precedent set at other Super Bowls when the anti umbrella rule was invoked. They ar gued that no one complained about the rule last year at Super Bowl XVIII or the year before at Super Bowl XVII. Critics, however, pointed out that those games were played in Tampa, Fla., and Pasa dena, Calif., where it rains about as often as Orson Welles eats cottage cheese. Yeah? Well how about Super Bowl XV a few years back, the NFL retorted. That game was played in rainy Louisiana and not a single complaint was registered over trie anti-umbrella rule. And the NFL would have a valid point in that case, except for the fact that the game was played in the Louisiana Superdome, with “dome” being the key word. But we’re talking Palo Alto this winter. San Francisco. Rain every third day in January. No dome. And no sun. And it’s not a tropical rain. It’s a cold rain, the kind that, upon reaching the skin, makes a person shake as if he’d just opened a two- month telephone bill. The game should be sponsored by the pneumonia ward of San Fran cisco General Hospital. The official snack of Super Bowl XIX might be the aspirin. Deep Throat will long be remembered as a crucial part of Wa tergate history, but Sore Throat could forever become a part of Su per Bowl history. 1 i-L /L-TJ__b±±. 1 WTJlklG Mxl V£. S-CEM T.cam you FOZ PULING TDE. REGULAR -T<M0MGPiA'S SFAGOkh MOUJING \ PEMAMP3 fO? PU£lk)G PLAYOFPZ .. ) lMrtRVieu/3 £Ou/U. ' The roar of the crowd might be replaced by the sneeze of the crowd. Super Bowl IX in New Orleans brought out the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Terrible Towels. Super Bowl XIX may mark the debut of Killer Klee nex. Counterfeh uncovered Super Bowl ticket ring San Francisco area r I United Press International SAN FRANCISCO National A ticket to the game costs $60. Many people in the crowd will have paid $100, $200, as much as $800 for a prime, scalped ticket. You The umbrella is as much a part of life in the City By The Bay as are ex pensive foreign cars that no one can really afford in Los Angeles. San Francisco without umbrellas in the winter is like Vail, Colorado, without skis. would think that for that kind of money people would be allowed to protect themselves from the rain, at the risk of having to occasionally look over or around the umbrellas in front of them or stay alert enough to keep the umbrellas out of their eyes. You get the feeling that if the NFL had been in charge of old say ings, we would today be describing, fools as people “who don’t have enough sense to go out in the rain.” Football League officials sai day the largest Super lar Counterfeiting ring ever h, uncovered in a nearby town as .many as 500 bogus tii ker weekend’s game could be in lion. “It is a buyer beware mi said the N FI .\s ev ci. ive Don Weiss. “We will >e in tickets closeh on th< d.o of i and those holding bogus tit not be accomodated." Police in suburban Millb broke the counterfeii nn night, the NFL said. One t been arrested and anoiher n sought. I lie suspect. Dean Scott f of Honolulu, was chain ! s. grand thelt and forgery lor attempt ing to sell the fake tickets. Police con fiscated 28 phony tickets. “Police were made aware of this," said Weiss, “bv a man who had bought some of the tickets. He paid S225 and $250 for them. “He first bought four tickets in Millbrae City and then bought 10 more in a meeting at Fisherman’s Wharf. After that purchase he be taine suspicious of the titkets and eventually went to the police. “A third meeting was arranged, at which time tin arrest was made.” Weiss said information gathered from the arrested man indicated that 500 more counterfeit tickets could have been sold, but that even more than that number might be on the market. 1 le said he did not know whether the operation was locally SHOP ALL FOLEY'S STORES MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 10 TO 9:30 (DOWNTOWN HOUSTON MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 9:30 TO 6, > OVER EASY big shirts at small prices Slip into something easy, like this' comfortable big shirt with 2 pockets, wide roll-up sleeves and gussetted nderarms. Choose peach, light grey, □ffron, taupe, black or ivory. 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