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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NFLE 1/8/98

NEW YORK GIANTS COACH JIM FASSEL JOINS SUPER BOWL XXXII ‘CYBERCAST’ TEAM

Associated Press’ NFL Coach of the Year, JIM FASSEL, will join NBC on NFL analyst BOB TRUMPY and former Dallas Cowboys personnel chief GIL BRANDT to provide a live "cybercast" of Super Bowl XXXII on Sunday, January 25, to fans worldwide on Superbowl.com.

The live gameday "cybercast" is the culmination of live events featured on the official Super Bowl XXXII Web site (http://superbowl.com), created by the NFL, NBC Sports and IBM. During the live cybercast, Fassel, Trumpy and Brandt will provide expert analysis of the game and will interact with fans around the world.

In the week leading up to Super Bowl XXXII, Fassel will provide his insights on the Super Bowl match-up and "chat" live with fans.

Fans visiting the site on Super Sunday also can access live textual play-by-play of the game, graphical drive charts and statistics, live audio of the press box and pa announcer, audio coverage of the game in Japanese, French, Italian and German, audio and video clips as well as gameday photos.

Last year, Superbowl.com drew record traffic on Super Bowl Sunday, registering more than 10.2 million "hits" and 2 million impressions (pages viewed).