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Green: Super Bowl starts slowly but reaches spectacular

Jerry Green is one of two journalists — Jerry Izenberg of Newark (N.J.) is the other — to cover every Super Bowl.

San Francisco — A colossus or a resounding dud?

The words, once tinged with skepticism and doubt, never have perished.

They have prevailed from Vince Lombardi to Joe Namath to Don Shula to Garo Yepremian to Terry Bradshaw to Lynn Swann to Joe Montana to Jerry Rice to Lawrence Taylor to Emmitt Smith to Tom Brady to Bill Belichick to Eli Manning to Peyton Manning — and now to Cam Newton.