Expository Essay College/NFL FootBall

Ohio State is going to the rose bowl and this time its going to stick but one of the crazy corollaries to the bowl championship, Ohio State's haring won or shared five straight big ten tittles six since 2001. But preparing for its first rose bowl appearance since the 1996 season and since 1947 the big ten champion has more or less been contracted to represent the conference in pasadena but some years after that the first place team didnt make the trip because there used to be rules aganist the same school repersenting. The confernce in back to back season, and then there was 1961 ohio state faculty council claiming football had become too big nexed the trip. But two year's ago ohio state players clenched roses in their teenth after beating Michigan-but the stems were conditional.

Each Year there are superstars who reinforce their reputation by playing magnificently in the super bowl and there are newcomers who step out of the shadows and into the spotlight with a single great game... or maybe just a singlegreat play. In the end we remember the touchdown more vivdly than antthing else we recall images of a pass floating through the air and into the hand of a wide receiver, and of the wild celebration that follows his arrival in the end zone, its true that there have been blowouts in the super bowl. Its also true that there have been thrilling finishes in which placekickers have decided the outcome but its especially true that the NFL's most important game has produced more than its share of spectacular touchdowns, some of which determined the winner, and some of which merely caused us to shake our heads in awe.

More Than 100,000
football fans filled the rose bowl in pasadena for Super Bowl XVII-and every one of them knew what was about to happen it was early in the fourth quarter and the washington redskins were trailing the miami Dolphins by a score of 17-13. On fourth down from the miami 43-yards line, just one yard shy of a first down was there any other call to make? Of course not the redskin had to maintain possesession if they were going to win, and the man most likely to get that final hard-earned bit of turf was fullback John Riggins. One of the toughest and most dependable running backs ever to put on a football uniform so there was no debate the redskins knew riggins would get the ball the Dolphins knew it the whole stadium knew it millions of fans watching on television knew it.