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Sports
Friday • January 19 (
Want Super Bowl tickets?
You’d better be Super Rich
1ST ANNUAL
HISPANIC OPEN HOUSE
Sec
LA .A , 1 , - 4A
Monday, Januaiy 22,1996
Rudder Theater 7:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Leo Sayavedra,
Deputy Chancellor,
Texas A&M University System
Topic: “Importance of Student Involvement.’
Presented by Hispanic Presidents Council:
Ballet Folklorico Celestial (BFC)
Committee for the Awareness of Mexican American Culture (CAMAQ
Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA)
Hispanic Graduate Student Association (HGSA)
Hispanic Journalists Association (HJA)
Kappa Delta Chi Sorority
Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES)
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (NHSF)
Omega Delta Phi Fraternity
Puerto Rican Student Association (PRSA)
Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club (RGVHC)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
I t seems every January the
one thing everyone has on
their minds is the Super
Bowl. Not only does a fever
spread across the nation at the
start of the new year, but it’s
almost as if this one game will
determine the future for half-
a-billion male sports fans who
support 100 of the biggest,
beefiest men in the NFL.
As a result of this Super
Bowl fever, wives and children
are put on hold, beer parties
are planned and loads of mon
ey are spent on big-screen
TVs, airplane tickets and
game tickets.
Watching the local news the
other night, I learned that this
year loyal Cowboy fans and
avid Super Bowl attendees
will have to spend a lot more
money, be a little more persis
tent, and know more of the
right people if they want to
watch up close as Steeler guts
are spread across Tempe, Az.
on Jan. 28.
Just because I say this it
does not mean that I’m a die
hard Cowboy fan who would
kill to attend this game — I
wouldn’t.
But those of you who would
Nicole
Smith
Sportswriter
do anything to watch the Cow
boys in actions first-hand are
probably going to have to set
tle with a great view from the
couch.
It seems only the cheapest
and worst tickets, which- are
going for $350, are being sold
to the average ticket buyer,
while all of the good seats are
being bought up by large cor
porations and businesses.
We all know that the NFL
needs to make its money —
that is why tickets cost so
much. However, unless you
are willing to fork over your
entire life savings on a football
game, your chances of getting
a good Super Bowl ticket are
slim to none.
It’s a little ridiculous that
one football game that lasts
three-and-a-half hours can cost
over $2,000 for one person.
Let’s be honest, everybody
who’s anybody already knows
that the Cowboys are big fa
vorites to win.
So why don’t sports fans cop
a squat three feet from the TV,
and leave the 20-yard line end
zone tickets to those who want
a bad view of the game?
Whether you are there or
not, the game will still go on,
so we should all save our mon
ey for next year and hope that
the real sports fan can actual
ly get a good seat for a reason
able price for Super Bowl
XXXI.
Who knows? Maybe it
would make everybody feel
better knowing that a bunch of
AT&T and IBM executives will
be enjoying 50-yard line seats
on the second row.
At least all of us at home
have that advantage of being
able to catch the post-game ac
tion with Jimmy Johnson and
Howie Long. Sound fair
enough, I guess.
So while money is buying
happiness for a few people, the
rest of us are stuck looking
forward to passing the pretzels
and beer nuts to the fat guy
across the room.
MS
Track team
gets Big 12 |RGI "
preview
□ The Texas A&M
Track Teams will
compete in the Okli
homa Invitational.
02, No.'
By Stephanie Christopher
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Men’s
Women's Track and Field Tea. 1
will begin their season Satur;
in Oklahoma City in what?
be a sneak preview of the Big
competition.
Not only will the Aggie I
be at the Oklahoma Invitatior
meet, but there will be compel irissa Ala
tors from many of their soon Battalion
be Big 12 rivals.
Nelson said he is very coE| e Texas
dent in his team and feels it!
Mother Irvin: Michael has a foul mouth
a shot at the Southwest Code iorarily
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cipation
□ Pearl Irvin says she
will have a talk with her
son about his language.
grown man or not, he won’t get off
without a scolding, at the very
least, for his choice of words on
several
(AP) Michael Irvin insists he
will say what he wants whenev
er he wants. His mom says not
so fast.
“I will be talking with my boy,”
Pearl Irvin said from her home in
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. “I don’t need
to tell you he didn’t learn to speak
that way in this house.”
Pearl Irvin chuckled softly
through much of the Thursday
morning conversation. That means
her son, better known as the Dal
las Cowboys’ 29-year-old perennial
Pro Bowl receiver, probably will
avoid a spanking. But she said
occa
sions in recent
days.
Irvin first
created an up
roar last week
end while ad
dressing a
Texas Stadium
crowd and a
live national
television audi
ence during
presentation of
the NFC cham
pionship trophy. In defending be
leaguered coach Barry Switzer, he
let slip a four-letter word. Given a
Irvin
chance to apologize Wednesday,
Irvin instead faced the battery of
TV cameras at the Cowboys Valley
Ranch training facility and repeat
ed the same word five times.
He then defied anyone to stop
him from expressing himself in
any manner he chooses. His mom
planned to take up the gauntlet.
“I almost fell through the floor
the first time he said it,” Pearl
Irvin recalled. “I have never in my
life heard Michael talk that way.
“He told me, ‘Mama, I’m sorry.’
And I said, ‘Michael, you know
that’s no way to talk, especially not
when your speaking in public. And
especially when you’ve got a little
brother coming up who listens to
everything you say. You wouldn’t
want him speaking like that.’
ence title this year.
Nelson is not the onlyoiijnd from
who feels the Aggies have ask
at the SWC crown.
Junior 55-meter hurdler La
ry Wade said A&M has the let?
of talent where every Aggie con
petitor has a fair shot of wimiif
every time they line up.
“If we keep our heads
er, come out as a team am
everyone takes care of business,
then we should be able to vm
the SWC,” Wade said.
A major strength for the k
gies this weekend and forth!
season is senior 55-m hurdler
Anjanette Kirkland.
Kirkland said that sheis
ready to test her feet this week
end so that she can makeherfi
nal adjustments for the SWf
season.
Although not looking past
this meet, the Aggies are truly
looking forward to the SWC
meets because of the end of the
conference.
“Since Coach Nelson and
Coach (Abe) Brown have never
won the SWC, this is our las!
chance,” Wade said. “Wenot
only want to win the title (or
ourselves, but primarily for our
coaches.”
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