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The Super Bowl Will Have a Global Audience of About 800 Million, Many of Whom Are Passionate, Some of Whom Are Curious; the Others Just Need a Reason to Party

SUPER BOWL XXXIV / ST. LOUIS VS. TENNESSEE | POLAND / All Superlatives Fit to Print

January 30, 2000|DAVID HOLLEY

In Poland, television viewers generally did not have access to any Super Bowl broadcast, but a few newspapers wrote about the imminent game as a strange American phenomenon.

"In Super America, every Super American--and surely every Superman--watches the Super Bowl," reported Zycie, a leading daily newspaper.


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"The so-called average American knows three things for sure: America was discovered by Christopher Columbus, hamburgers and Coca-Cola are the best in the world, and Kennedy was the best president," Zycie said. "And there is the fourth thing: the most important day in the year. In America, that is the so-called Super Sunday, a day with the football championship game called the Super Bowl."

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