
Two-Minute Drill
ACROSS
1 It might go over Bruschi's head
5 Game for the ages
9 Bricks clang off it
12 Name of four MLB outfielders
13 Something Tom Brady tries to avoid
14 Hoo-ha
15 Team that had the oldest Super Bowl MVP
18 Heisman winners, usually (abbr.)
19 Stat for Jersey Joe
20 Yachts' backbones
21 Part of rpm
22 Wimbledon call
23 Alma mater of Super Bowl XXVII MVP
26 Chant when the Cubs' manager is ejected
27 Trevino from Texas
30 Lowest-scoring Super Bowl winner
34 Ante up
35 College hoops tourney
36 Totals up a scorecard, e.g.
37 Football widows' favorite moments during Super Bowl
38 Rams, on a scoreboard
40 Replay speed
43 "____ Coryell"
44 Sun Devils' sch.
47 Team with the longest time of possession in a Super Bowl
50 NASCAR hazard
51 Super Bowl XLI was played in it
52 Clash of palookas
53 HBO's When It a Game
54 Thesaurus words (abbr.)
55 Benson
DOWN
1 They make Strahan look even bigger
2 Yank or Jay, briefly
3 Eli and Peyton, to Archie
4 Soccer mom's wheels, often
5 Fenway flub
6 Sites of many darts matches
7 Home to tennis's Shahar Peer (abbr.)
8 Advice to a Little Leaguer
9 Tour de France, e.g.
10 Unitas, to many QBs
11 Alternative to Welker
16 _____ out a win
17 Extra-point catcher
21 Shriver who won 112 doubles titles
22 Internet guffaw
23 Masked man hunched over in a park
24 Bourne Identity org.
25 Give, as odds
26 Tailgating locale
27 Helmet, slangily
28 Toomer or Burress
29 Twisty Grand Prix section
31 Where Super Bowl XV was played
32 Trash-talk
33 Sutton, 2004 Ryder Cup captain
37 The LPGA's Alcott
38 Stadium holdups?
39 Ironman athlete's prefix
40 Ski-jump coat
41 Star Wars princess
42 Temple athletes
43 Closely related
44 Quotation notation (abbr.)
45 Stupefy
46 Org. for Roddick
48 Hall of Famer Nitschke
49 Dr. J's first league
TRIVIA CHALLENGE
Unscramble the letters in the tan squares to answer this question
What team with a winning Super Bowl record has been outscored by its opponents 148--107?
ANSWERS
Super Stumpers
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PUZZLE BY PATRICK MERRELL
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