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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1991
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hen Home Box
Office producers
were in Buffalo,
N.Y., preparing for their "In-
side the NFL" program,
which aired the week of Dec.
17-22, they asked several
members of the Buffalo Bills
to tape holiday season
messages.
The players were asked
what they were going to say
in advance, to eliminate
duplication.
"I told them I'm sure no one
else is saying 'Happy
Chanukah,' " Bills- lineman
Adam Lingner recalled, "I
wished everyone a Happy
Chanukah and a Merry
Christmas. As someone who
deals with the holiday season
in his home, I'm more aware
of the neglect of the Jewish
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Special to The Jewish News
Buffalo's Levy
To Make History
MARVIN SONNE
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HARLAN C. ABBEY
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26400 W. 12 Mile Road
Southfield, Mich.
354-6070
ary Levy of the Buf-
falo Bills will be
making history Jan.
27 in Tampa, Fla., when he
becomes the first Jewish
head coach in the National
Football League's Super
Bowl.
The Bills play the New
York Giants for the cham-
pionship of professional
football in the United States
in Sunday's Silver Anniver-
sary contest.
The Jan. 27 game won't be
Levy's first trip to the Super
Bowl in a coaching capacity,
however. He was special
teams coach of the Washing-
ton Redskins when they fell
to the Miami Dolphins, 14-7,
in 1973's Super Bowl VII.
In 1981, Levy coached the
Kansas City Chiefs to the
NFL playoffs, losing to the
San Diego Chargers.
Two other Jews heavily
involved in this season's pro
football playoffs will be wat-
ching Super Bowl XXV from
the sidelines: Al Davis,
owner of the Los Angeles
Raiders, and Harris Barton,
offensive tackle for the San
Francisco 49ers.
Davis's team fell, 51-3, to
the Bills in the NFL's
American Football Con-
ference championship Jan.
20, while Barton and his
teammates lost, 15-13, to the
Giants in the National Foot-
ball Conference final the
same day. ❑
holiday in December."
Lingner, who snaps the ball
to punter Rick Tuten and to
Frank Reich, who holds for
place-kicker Scott Norwood
on field goals and extra
points, is not Jewish. But his
wife, the former Marcy Bern-
stein, is, and so are their
daughters, Amanda, 5, and
Dayna, 2.
"I want them to be strong in
their religious beliefs,"
Lingner continued, "and as
much as we move around, it's
not always convenient to rent
in a Jewish neighborhood. So
when people wished Amanda
`Merry Christmas,' she
always answered, 'I don't
celebrate Christmas; I
celebrate Chanukah.' "
"Inside the NFL" was in
Buffalo the week prior to the
Bills' win over Miami, which
gave the team its third
straight American Football
Conference East champion-
ship and the home field ad-
vantage throughout the NFL
play-offs. The program was
seen all over and Lingner's
comments brought much
favorable reaction from
Jewish sports fans, "in-
cluding my in-laws, obvious-
ly," he added.
Another caller was the
father of Jeff Morrison, WGR
radio announcer who works
with Lingner on Lingner's
weekly radio program — "I'm
the only long-snapper in the
NFL with his own show,"
Lingner said. Morrison is
Jewish.
The Bills play the New York
Giants in the Super Bowl
Jan. 27.
Adam and Marcy met at the
University of Illinois, where
Adam became a ninth round
draft choice of the Kansas Ci-
ty Chiefs in 1983.
"I was there four seasons,"
he said, "seeing some action
as an offensive lineman and
doing the long snaps."
He wound up with the Bills
when Buffalo long-snapper
Dale Hellestrae went to the
Los Angeles Raiders.
This year, he has had no
bad snaps. "When that hap-
pens, and there were two, one
each in the last games of the
'88 and '89 seasons," he ex-
plained, "it's because I tens-
ed up in my snapping motion;
my mind was on the wrong
thing at the wrong time. You
have to stay relaxed and
make the motion smooth.
"This year all my snaps
haven't been perfect, but
they've been within the
target range. On field goals
and PATS, I aim for the hand
Frank Reich raises." ❑