Talk:Super Bowl XII

message: I wrote a poem about that game while it was going on and later that night. I never "finished" it, though I think there are some good lines in it. I will paste it below. Feel free to edit/improve it, all you guys 'n' gals out there who like to mix poetry and football.
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TWELFTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP  
January 16th, '78
for NW
The shape is a circle
with two points dead center
One is ground zero
and one might be a camera
on a plane high up in the ceiling of the Dome.
This is the ball's unpredictability
Though you stand tall	though your arm reaches out
looking	looking
though your legs are like marble
one foot always down
one eye on the ball in the air
It gets away
The ball is loose
If he could have taken it clean into his middle
cradle it like his baby...
But if you run that way you fall.
Weese,	Weese
he can hear the voices call
We're Goodrich	not the other guys
The young quarterback played at Mississippi
	a New Orleans boy
He is thinking of pairs of eyes
he is holding a girl
the chance he is blowing to be a hero.
He wanted to be the iridescent sphere
touching down along the orderly rows
sending the shock wave out.
But he wanted to do it alone.
And that is not what the game is about.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lestrad (talk • contribs) 09:57, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superbowl XII poem 

message: The Gazette [Montreal], New Orleans (AP), "Super Bowl XII: Cowboys XXVII, Broncos X", Monday, Jan. 16, 1978, page 9.
=== Butch Johnson's catch ===
Makes the point that Johnson had the ball when he crossed the plane of the goal line.  Also that Johnson had suffered a broken thumb (!) earlier in the game, and on this catch had to use his left hand more than his right.   FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 19:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Like to get at least two sources if we can.   FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 23:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contemporaneous newspaper article(s) 

message: Makes the point that Johnson had the ball when he crossed the plane of the goal line.  Also that Johnson had suffered a broken thumb (!) earlier in the game, and on this catch had to use his left hand more than his right.   FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 19:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Butch Johnson's catch 

message: ‘  .  .  .  “Our game was rush, rush, rush,” said [Harvey] Martin.  “Pressure, pressure, pressure.  We wanted to force him out of the pocket and we did.  We were coming all the way.”  .  .  ’
:Like to get at least two sources if we can.   FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 23:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game plan for Cowboys' defense to pressure Morton? 

message: Recently returned to this article and found a statement from an October [edit] saying that no known copy of this Super Bowl is known to exist, using as evidence a [2010 article]. Maybe this is referring to a master, because I've seen links of copies being on the tape trading circuit and on a few occasions saw a copy uploaded from an airing from Houston CBS affiliate KHOU. I'll look for something more recent to see if anything comes up confirming, clarifying or refuting that statement. WAVY 10 Fan (talk) 23:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Super Bowl XII Footage Status