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(2/1/02)
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FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE
H.W. BUSH AND
SUPER BOWL VI MVP ROGER STAUBACH
TO TAKE PART IN SUPER BOWL XXXVI COIN TOSS
AT THE LOUISIANA SUPERDOME IN NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS — Former
President GEORGE H.W. BUSH and Super Bowl VI MVP and Pro Football
Hall of Famer ROGER STAUBACH will participate in the pre-game coin
toss for Super Bowl XXXVI on Sunday, Feb. 3, at the Louisiana Superdome in
New Orleans, the National Football League announced today.
Both Bush and Staubach
served in the United States Navy. Bush received the Distinguished Flying
Cross Award for his valiant efforts in 1944 as a pilot of a torpedo plane
that led an attack against Japanese forces. Staubach served in Vietnam as
a Naval officer following his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy,
where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1963 as college football’s top player.
Bush, the 41st
U.S. president, will become the first U.S. President to participate in
person in the Super Bowl coin toss. In 1985 at Stanford Stadium, his
predecessor, President Ronald Reagan, participated in the Super Bowl XIX
coin toss from the White House via satellite. Bush later was President
and Commander-in-Chief when the U.S. prevailed in the Persian Gulf War in
1991. Super Bowl XXV in Tampa was played five days after the start of that
war. As Vice President in 1982, Bush attended Super Bowl XVI in Pontiac,
Michigan.
Super Bowl XXXVI marks the
30th anniversary of Staubach’s heroics in the Dallas Cowboys’
24-7 Super Bowl VI victory over the Miami Dolphins at Tulane Stadium in
New Orleans, Jan. 16, 1972. It was the Cowboys’ first Super Bowl win.
Staubach was often referred to as “America’s Quarterback” after the
Cowboys were dubbed “America’s Team” in the 1970s. Staubach played 11
seasons for the Cowboys (1969-79), leading the team to four NFC titles and
victories in Super Bowl VI and XII, both played in New Orleans. When he
retired, Staubach’s 83.4 passer rating was the best in NFL history.
Staubach turns 60 on February 5, two days after the Super Bowl.
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Super Bowl coin toss
participants
Super Bowl XII
Red Grange
Super Bowl XIII
George Halas
Super Bowl XIV
Art Rooney
Super Bowl XV
Marie Lombardi
Super Bowl XVI
Bobby Layne
Super Bowl XVII
Elroy Hirsch
Super Bowl XVIII
Bronko Nagurski
Super Bowl XIX
President Ronald Reagan and Hugh McElhenny
Super Bowl XX
Bart Starr
Super Bowl XXI
Willie Davis
Super Bowl XXII
Don Hutson
Super Bowl XXIII
Nick Buoniconti, Bob Griese and Larry Little
Super Bowl XXIV
Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Art Shell and Willie Wood
Super Bowl XXV
Pete Rozelle
Super Bowl XXVI
Chuck Noll
Super Bowl XXVII
O.J. Simpson
Super Bowl XXVIII
Joe Namath
Super Bowl XXIX
Otto Graham, Joe Greene, Ray Nitschke and Gale Sayers
Super Bowl XXX
Super Bowl Most Valuable Players (Joe Montana tossed coin)
Super Bowl XXXI
Mike Ditka, Tom Flores, Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, George
Seifert and Hank Stram
Super Bowl XXXII
Joe Gibbs, Eddie Robinson and Doug Williams
Super Bowl XXXIII
Raymond Berry, Roosevelt Brown, Art Donovan, Frank
Gifford, Sam Huff, Tom Landry, Gino
Marchetti, Don
Maynard, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Andy
Robustelli
Super Bowl XXXIV
Bud Grant, Lamar Hunt, Bobby Bell, Paul Krause, Willie
Lanier, Alan Page, Jan Stenerud
Super Bowl XXXV
Marcus Allen, Ottis Anderson, Tom Flores, Bill Parcells
Super Bowl XXXVI
George H.W. Bush, Roger Staubach