51.   Even more can be made of this game than Tuna Bowl I because so much more than egos and obsessions are riding on it.

52.   European players are far tougher, more aggressive and went through more to play the game than anybody in the street, so to speak.

53.   Even with his career on the skids, Kevin Costner gets more attention at Dodgers games than any Dodgers on the field.

54.   Everyone agrees Harbor would rather play a game than practice.

55.   Excepting recent expansion teams Carolina and Jacksonville, only Tampa Bay and New Orleans have played fewer postseason games than the Seahawks.

56.   Few invest more physical and mental energy in games than Owens.

57.   Fisher brought much more to the game than his statistics.

58.   Fisk hit more homers and caught more games than any other catcher in history.

59.   FleetCenter folks say there are more no-shows for Celtics and Bruins games than ever before at a comparable time of the year.

60.   For all its seeming civility, this was a less predictable game than the one I grew up playing.