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Anthony Cupo grew up in Jersey City a few blocks

from Journal Square and thousands of miles from the

Sundance Resort in Park City, Utah, a small ski village that

Robert Redford turned into a famous film festival location

back in 1978. The 2013 Sundance Film Festival was in full-

swing the week of Jan. 17 and Cupo, who is the Executive

Producer and Editor of his first feature film “Concussion” saw

his dream come true when he received a seven-figure offer

from RADIUS-TWC to distribute “Concussion” in the fall. Of

course, Cupo said yes.

The Sundance Film Festival attracts thousands of producers,

directors, writers, actors, critics and studio ‘heads’ who turn

the small ski village into a Hollywood event where films are

screened in theaters and other venues and prizes are given

out to the top contenders. Cupo’s film, “Concussion,” written

and directed by his friend Stacie Passon. . . con’t pg. 2

by Sally Deering

Pictured at left:

Stacie Passon,

Writer/Director &

Anthony Cupo,

Executive Producer/

Editor of featured

film “Concussion”

Inset: A scene

from the film

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(Jonathan Tchaikovsky), who also pimps on the side -- and Abby decides to take female clients as a high-end hooker, using the professional name Eleanor. Writer-director Stacie Passion’s sexually charged premise becomes a vehicle for an emotional exploration of a stagnant relationship and the struggle between desire and stability. Weigert (best known for her work on “Deadwood”) gives a performance that’s revelatory in more ways than one, as Abby sheds inhibitions and clothes. The slick look (by production designer Lisa Myers and art director Kevin P. O’Donnell) highlights the split between Abby’s suburban oppression and her urban freedom.” Terrific reviews like that keep pouring in for “Concussion” and Cupo,

tells the story of what happens when a suburban wife and mother gets a concussion that fractures her perspective on her marriage and more importantly, her life. Critics like Jim Dobson, President of Indie PR in Studio City, California, who attended a screening, gave “Concussion” 3-1/2 stars.

“There is a real concussion at the beginning of the antiseptically beautiful “Concussion,” but it’s also a metaphor that’s no less jarring. When Abby (Robin Weigert), a suburban lesbian married to Kay (Julie Fain Lawrence), gets hit by a baseball thrown by one of their children, it sets off a need for change in her routine existence. She works on renovating a downtown loft with a contractor, Justin

42, is thrilled about his Sundance experience. An alumnus of the School of Visual Arts in New York, Cupo has been involved in film since he was a kid playing hooky to catch the movies playing in the Journal Square movie theaters close to home. He has worked on commercials and videos with all the major networks and in 2006 Cupo partnered with friend and colleague R. Jamie Mamalis to open The Rust Company in Manhattan, a lab, of sorts, that offers the latest cutting-edge technology for filmmakers to edit film and video and perform other creative tasks to see their films and videos realized. At Sundance, Cupo took a break before his film’s screening on Thursday to share with Riverview Observer

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con’t from pg. 2what it’s like showing his film at the Sundance Film Festival and making a deal that may change the course of his life and career.

RVO: Congratulations on the success of “Concussion” at Sundance.AC: Thank you. People here are digging it. It all goes to Stacie Passon, the writer and director.

RVO: Can you describe the film for our readers?AC: “Concussion” is about a lesbian housewife who lives in an upscale neighborhood in New Jersey. She is playing with her kids and her son beans her with a baseball and she has a concussion. When she comes to, she has that 40-something realization – where am I and where’s my passion? When you’re 25 everything makes sense, when you’re 40 it goes gray. That’s the heart of the film that people are relating to most: there’s a clock ticking for everybody for different reasons.

RVO: Were you nervous about showing your film at Sundance?AC: This is my first feature film, this is Stacie’s first feature film, and the first time we’re here at Sundance. I feel this is the little film that could.

RVO: Is the film up for a top prize?AC: What happened this year, 16 films were selected, 8 by men directors; eight by women directors. The top prizes are ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Film’ and there’s an audience award. One of the rules, the film has to be a premier. It can’t be out in theaters. It has to be the first time the world has seen any one of these films.

RVO: How did your collaboration with Stacie happen?AC: Stacie and I started

working together making industrials for Warner Brothers Records, Sony music. We’ve made music videos together and all sorts of promotional pieces for the music industry. Stacie hails from Detroit and now she resides in Montclair where the story takes place.I’m still a Jersey City guy. In February of 2011, Stacie told me she had an idea for a film and my response was ‘Good, don’t tell me about it, write it.’ Two months later she came back with a first draft and it knocked my socks off.

RVO: Did you shoot the film in Jersey?AC: We shot a good portion in Montclair and in Hoboken at the old Levelor building. They were very nice to us there. We shot on location for exteriors in Brooklyn and Soho.

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RVO: For those of us who have never been, can you describe what Sundance is like?AC: Sure. When you first go to Newark and fly out, you want to question why Redford chose this place for a film festival. You have to fly to Salt Lake and take an hour drive to get here. But once you get here and you’re surrounded by snow-capped mountains, you realize everybody here has the same love for film you do and it makes sense. You’re cut off from the world for a week just seeing other people’s films and supporting them. It becomes a weird bonding between all the filmmakers. (Regarding the layout), it has one main road in and out of the city and from what I understand when the festival comes around the price of everything doubles. When Redford gave the commencement speech, he

said the festival generates $80 million in 8 days for the territory. All the shuttles that take you from one theater to the next are free and I believe there are 8 theaters, but when I say theater, the local high school auditorium is turned into a theater, a Jewish temple is turned into a theater, all of this adds to the charm. Meanwhile big companies like Dolby will spec out the theater and make sure the sound quality is top notch. The high school auditorium, the Jewish temple, they become professional theaters in a matter of days.

RVO: And after the first screening, “Concussion” was picked up by a distributor. Can you share how that came about?AC: The Weinsteins have a company called RADIUS-TWC

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and they picked up our film. It screened Saturday and sold two days later. I’m saying this in a very humble way, it’s a big deal, a 7-figure deal and more than half of that will go back to the investors.

RVO: How will this change things for you and your career?AC: It lets us play in the sandbox and gives us the chance to do this again. I have now 50 business cards and keep track of all the people I’m meeting. I’m part of the Class of 2013. I’m hoping in 20 years that will have grown.

Robin Weigert stars in the new film Concussion by Anthony Cupo

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River View Observer- Local Happenings HCCC- Still Time to Register for Spring Classes

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / January 29, 2013 — New and continuing students at Hudson County Community College still have time to register for Spring classes,

which begin on Monday, Jan. 28, and Spring Late Start classes, which begin on Feb. 11.HCCC offers a variety of classes in degree and

certificate programs which meet during the morning, afternoon and evening, weekdays and weekends, in online and in-person formats. The College also has articulation agreements with several area colleges which will facilitate transfer of credits for a bachelor’s degree.For more information, please visit www.hccc.edu/mystart or call 201.714.7200.

WEEKDAY PATH SERVICE FROM WTC TO NEWARK RESTOREDCommuters riding the PATH trains from Newark to the World Trade Center (WTC) in NYC have cause to celebrate: The Port Author-ity of New York and New Jersey announced yesterday that weekday PATH service

between Newark and the WTC has been restored, al-though PATH service is still unavailable on weekends. Through February, from Fridays at 10 p.m. through Mondays at 5 a.m., crews will use this stretch of time to repair damages caused by Hurricane Sandy.

With Hoboken PATH ser-vice to WTC still under construction, Hoboken commuters must continue to find alternate routes to downtown NYC. According to a press release put out by the Port Authority of NY and NJ, “Crews continue to work around-the-clock to return weekday Hobo-ken to World Trade Center service and weekend service between Newark and the World Trade Center. Those are the final segments of service yet to be restored.”

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FORMER SECAUCUS RESIDENT AND AUTHOR OF THE BOSS ALWAY’S SITS IN THE BACK JON D’AMORE DRAWS LARGE CROWD AT BOOK SIGNING John D’Amore’s appearance at the Tachair Bookshoppe in downtown Jersey City on Sunday, January 27th was a record breaking appearance accord-ing to Carol and Aleta Valleau owners of the popular book store. D’Amore read from his book The Boss Always Sits in the Back, a tell- all book about Hudson County Mobsters in the late 70s who pull off an elaborate scam in Las Vegas. D’Amore read exerpts from his book before an SRO crowd of 100 FANS. “John is our biggest selling author to date beamed Carol Valleau. “We just love his readings, he really gets the crowd interested.”

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VIEWS FROM HER CAMERAJersey City Resident and World Traveler Leila Bowie Photographs North Korea

Photo: Leila Bowie (far right) with her son Nile Bowie and their tour guide Shunee

By Sally Deering

Growing up in Jersey City, Leila Bowie dreamed of traveling the world and once she set out to accomplish her dream, Bowie traveled to more than 25 countries including her most recent trip to North Korea. “I’ve lived in Tokyo and Australia, and I’ve been to Thailand, Indonesia, Shang-hai Beijing, Pakistan, and all over Europe,” Bowie says. “I think I inherited my passion for traveling from my grandfather who was born in Louisiana and part of a traveling circus. I knew I wanted to travel the world by the age four or five.” In December, accompa-nied by her son, Nile Bowie, a TV correspondent based in Malaysia, Leila traveled to North Korea and took pictures of the countryside and its capital city Pyong-yang during her 11-day stay. Although tourism is con-trolled by the government – approximately 1,500 tourists are allowed in each year— Leila and Nile visited

loudspeakers which are everywhere and on from sunrise to sunset. “Every apartment has a loudspeaker,” Bowie says. “It can be turned down but not turned off. You always hear propaganda, speeches, all the waking hours of the day, and always different voices, but mostly male voices; and some music, too.” Touring the capital city of Pyongyang, Bowie says it

historic landmarks in Pyongyang and country vil-lages outside the city – al-ways accompanied by a tour guide. Leila says: “They never let you go anywhere without guides.” Everywhere she went, Leila Bowie took photo-graphs of what she saw, sometimes from the window of a moving car. Bowie has exhibited her photographs in New York and has four pieces in the Brooklyn Mu-seum’s permanent collection. “Visiting North Korea was an interesting experi-ence,” Bowie says. “I was in the north and the south and we were in a blizzard. Everyone has to clear the miles of roads from ice and snow. People are out there chopping at the ice with tiny shovels the size you would give kids at the seashore. Once we were in folklore village, there was no elec-tricity, no heat; we were freezing.” During her stay, Bowie felt constantly barraged by the voices heard on the

was bustling with people traveling on bicycles, trol-leys and subways. And everywhere she went, the locals were friendly and cu-rious. She and her son were even invited to see a musical presentation. “We were taken to a school and treated to an opera by five or six young women,” Bowie says. “Their voices and instru-ments and the way the children performed was incredible. After school the children were cleaning the schoolyard of snow.” Bowie and her son were the only Americans on the DMZ, she says, where a five-star colonel gave them a tour. “They took us where the treaty was signed and the colonel made reference to the fact that my son and I were Americans,” Bowie says. During her visit to North Korea, Bowie was surprised that government officials didn’t stamp her passport. “They give you a tourist visa to give back at the end

end of the stay, ,” Bowie says. “There’s no record. My passport doesn’t say anything. Nobody knows that I’ve been there. We had to pass through several checkpoints, but they never gave us a problem.”

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DMZ-Lelia Bowie For all its mystery, North Korea provided Bowie with excellent medical care when she got sick toward the end of her trip. “I stayed a few extra days because I was put in the hospital with septic poisoning,” Bowie says. “It was awful. We didn’t think I was going to live. I was in a hospital for foreign diplomats and the healthcare was wonderful.

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They took very good care of me.” Back home, for now, Bowie says she would like to go back to her favorite country Thailand and open a free school to teach Eng-lish to the girls who live in the mountains. Bowie relates more to the everyday people, she says, no matter where she visits. “I’ve lived in pool halls, I slept in rice bins,” Bowie says. “I’d rather be with the villagers. I’ve been so wel-comed, people have taken me into their homes to live.

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It’s been amazing. I’m lucky I guess. One guy was holding me hostage on a camel but after a few choice words, he let me off the camel. At the time I was a 23 year-old New Yorker in Egypt. ”

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Hudson Then...Again 1906 Disasters and Charity by: Maureen Wlodarczyk

Three months after Hurricane Sandy, at a time of year when the Jersey Shore is normally taking a long winter’s nap and the rest of us are hunkered down counting the days until spring, the daily efforts and daunting struggles of recovery and rebuilding go on. The holiday season was anything but “merry” for so many people but acts of random (and not so random) kindness and the continu-ing charitable generosity of the people of New Jersey said a lot about who we are and the likelihood that we will not lose interest in our neighbors or the challenges

they continue to face. In fact, there is a history of Jersey people rallying to the aid of others stricken by natural disasters. As we ponder global warming, rising ocean levels, and weather phenom-ena with names we vaguely (if at all) knew a few years ago including “tsunami” and “derecho,” it turns out that multiple tantrums by Mother Nature occurring in a short period of time are not unprecedented. In April 1906, Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing scores of people in Naples just 11 days before the mas-sive San Francisco earth-quake killed thousands. The citizens of Hudson County were quick to

respond to both of those tragedies. Local Italian-Americans organized relief collections to provide finan-cial aid to those affected by Vesuvius. A wide array of disaster relief fundraising was mobilized to raise funds

San Francisco After the Earthquake

for the devastated people and institutions of San Francisco. The ladies of St. Mark’s Church, Van Vorst Square, sent the rector of St. Mary’s Church in San Francisco, destroyed in the quake, a

complete set of vestments embroidered in white and gold thread in a design of roses and vines. These ladies, members of St. Mark’s Senior Embroidery Class, had done the stun-ning handiwork themselves, making their generous gift all the more significant. At the Park Theatre, Bergen Point, Bayonne, the owner organized entertain-ment for a performance ben-efiting earthquake victims.Freeholders and other politicians served as ushers and over $200 was realized for the relief effort. At the Columbian Club in Jersey City, the Knights of Colum-bus presented an “all-star” vaudeville program

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J. S. BachCon Vivo’s 4th

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Arias from Bach Cantatas and the B-minor Mass; and the D-minor Oboe Concerto

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including Sheehan’s Minstrel Girls and other professional acts to raise funds as well. In Hoboken at the Stevens Institute auditorium, a benefit recital drew nearly a full-house of attendees who were entertained by various musical artists including three who called San Francisco their homes: sopranos Mrs. Benjamin Lathrop and Miss Lillie Lawlor, and Miss Eliza-beth Ames, a cellist. Also performing was Miss Kitty Cheatham, a popular singer remembered for her contri-butions to children’s music that entertained thousands in Europe and the United States and for organizing children’s concerts for the N.Y. Philharmonic and other orchestras. The Evening Journal newspaper, in concert with the “Citizens Committee,” publicized and encouraged reader donations to a trust fund administered by the Treasurer of the Commer-

Kitty Cheatham

$500 collected by employ-ees working at the Andrew J. Corcoran manufacturing company, the James Leo box factory and Mullins & Sons home furnishings, all located in Jersey City. Speaking as one who bonded and banded together with neighbors in the after-math of Hurricane Sandy, showering next door where there was hot water and sharing generators via bright orange extension cords that snaked from yard-to-yard, may we keep faith with our fellow Jersey residents whose losses were so severe and whose problems are far from over with the start of the New Year.

cial Trust Company. Just two weeks after the earth-quake struck San Fran-cisco, over $9,000 had been contributed to that fund and donor names, large and small, were published in the newspaper, including $25 donations each from Jersey City Mayor Mark Fagan and Oscar Schmidt, the owner of a local musical instrument manufacturing company. The smallest donationswere 25 or 50 cents, some of those collected by classes of school children, while among the largest were donations of $125 to

Mayor Mark Fagan

Maureen Wlodarczyk is a fourth-generation-born Jersey City girl and the author of three books about life in Jersey City in the 1800s and early 1900s: Past-Forward: A Three-De-cade and Three-Thousand-

Mile Journey Home, Young & Wicked: The Death of a Wayward Girl and Canary in a Cage: The Smith-Bennett Murder Case. For info: www.past-forward.com.

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(BPT) Exhausting stale indoor air and replacing it with fresh outside air is the best way to ensure continu-ous indoor air quality, the Home Ventilating Institute says. Modern construction, however, makes it virtu-ally impossible to achieve sufficient exchange of air without mechanical as-sistance. Fortunately, from venting skylights to high-tech exhaust fans, there are plenty of ways to ensure ventilation in the kitchen and bath without sacrificing a comfortable atmosphere. Thanks to resources like Energy.gov, you may al-ready know that a properly installed, energy-efficient skylight can help you con-trol heating, cooling and lighting costs. Skylights can also be an excellent source

Simple Ways to Freshen Up that Stuffy Bathroom or Kitchen Passive ventilation gives homeowners the benefit of fresh air without adding to their utility bills. A skylight doesn’t need to draw elec-tricity to move air the way a venting fan does. What’s more, skylights can be equipped with solar blinds for additional light control and energy efficiency. And when a homeowner chooses both a solar-powered fresh air skylight and solar-pow-ered blind, both the products and the installation may be eligible for a 30 percent federal tax credit as a green home improvement. Venting skylights in kitchens passively exhaust hot air, moisture and odors while admitting additional light for more pleasant cooking, dining and entertaining.

And skylights, along with fashionable accesso-ries including blinds, can be controlled manually or by remote control. The same applies in baths, where hu-midity levels are often high and the need for ventilation is constant.

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LOCAL THEATER Disney’s Little Mermaid Junior The Bayonne High School Department of Art, Music and Drama launched the BHS Drama Junior program in the fall of 2012 as a way to continue

providing exceptional opportunities in the per-forming arts to the Bayonne community- specifically to students in grades two through eight.

and 7PM, and Sunday, February 10th at 2PM in the Alexander X. O’Connor Auditorium at Bayonne High School. Join the cast of The Little Mermaid on a trip to the “fathoms below”! Meet your favorite sea creatures Flounder, Sebastian and Scuttle as they help their best friend, the beauti-ful mermaid named Ariel, find her true love – Prince Eric. They’ll run into some trouble along the way, since only the sea witch Ursula can give Ariel legs and the freedom to go on land to find Prince Eric. You’ll be humming “Under the Sea”, “Kiss the Girl”, and “Part of Your World” for weeks after you leave the theater! Over fifty students in grades two through eight make up the cast of The Little Mermaid, Jr. A “Don’t Miss “delightful, family friendly musical, perfect for kids and grown-up-kids of all ages!Performances of The Little Mermaid, Jr. are in the Alexander X. O’Connor Theater at Bayonne High School.

Performances are:Friday, February 8th at 7PMSaturday, February 9th at 2PMSaturday, February 9th at 7PM Sunday, February 10th at 2PM

Tickets may be purchased online at bhsdramasociety.comYou will have the chance to enter raffles for prizes from the Disney Store at each performance, and to purchase BHS Drama’s annual Super 50-50 Ticket for a chance to win up to $10,000!

BHS Drama Junior will present Disney’s hit movie and new musical “The Little Mermaid, Jr.” on Friday, February 8th at 7PM, Satur-day, February 9th at 2pm

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Maybe it’s the shiny chrome and vinyl-covered stools at the counters that lure us in? It might be the stacks of luscious layer cakes slathered in icing in the pastry cases? Or maybe it’s the bountiful menus that offer flavor-fests of choices that you can mix and match – like chocolate chip pancakes with a side of spaghetti – and the waiter doesn’t question your sanity. I’m talking about the All American Diner. And each one has its own mystique, a noir-esque appeal that draws us in like an Edward Hopper painting. Diners and Jerseyians go together like a burger with fries and here in Hudson, we have some of the best diners in the state including The Coach House on Kennedy Boulevard in North Bergen which opened in 1939 and stays open 24/7. Coach House Owner Nicholas Pappas and General Manager Constantine “Gus” Tountas don’t even have a key to the front door. When Clem Pappas

The Coach House Bar

opened his diner back then it was a train car-sized eatery where the grill was behind the counter and a cube steaksandwich cost 5 cents.

go-to destination that features a bar and lounge area that’s a “Happy Hour” hotspot with HD TVs and cozy nooks. “It’s a neat place to have a drink,” Pappas says. The diner area features acounter with stools, rows of roomy booths, two pastry

cases and a terrific salad bar that’s a customer favorite and an expanded dining room for those who like that restaurant feel. The menu offers old diner standbys like burgers, sandwiches; steaks, chops, pastas; and for a change of pace, all Cont’d on page 18

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restaurant VIEWS The Coach House -Cont’d from page 17

all sorts of daily specials where old recipes some-times become new again. Recently Pappas had the idea to go back in time and view older Coach House menus to see what dishes were popular. He remem-bered a German chef at Coach House who, Pappas says, made “the best sauer-braten” and other traditional German dishes like loin of pork. Customers seem to have nostalgia for these dishes, Pappas says. “I figured let’s be dif-ferent from the chains, let’s push the envelope,” Pappas says. “We started coming up with all the old recipes. We put loin of pork and sauer-braten on the menu and they both became popular. I’m looking now for a recipe for red cabbage.” The menu is so vast, here’s just a sampling from the Snacks & Starters sec-tion: Chicken croquetas with Chipotle Sauce; Na-chos Supreme; Asian-style Dumplings; Jalapeno-tossed Fried Calamari; Crispy Po-tato Skins; Buffalo Wings; Buffalo Shrimp; BBQ Spareribs; Fried Ravioli; and Fried Lasagna Squares ($4.95-$10.95). The vast Dinner section of the menu features Prime

Rib; New York Sirloin Strip; Pork Chops; Roast Chicken; Roast Pork Cuban Style; Pan Seared Salmon; Stuffed Shrimp; Paella; Chicken Pot Pie: and Crusty Parmesan Chicken ($13.95-$24.50). That’s really just a small portion of what Coach House serves on its menu. The bar at the Coach House is a great place to meet people or just sit and relax after a day’s work. Pappas says: “We have a lot of people meeting at the bar I can tell you that. We have ‘Happy Hour’ from 4-to-8 and a ‘Happy Hour’ menu. A lot of people eat dinner at the bar. We have nice bartenders.” And the staff has grown a lot since the 30s and 40s, too. “In the beginning my father was behind the grill and on any given night, you’d have three waitresses, my father and another cook,” Pappas says.

The Coach House hosts group parties in its Red Room for up to 50 people and up to 60 can be ac-commodated in the Garden Room. Those who can’t get away for breakfast, lunch or dinner can order their food online for pick up or deliv-ery by visiting the Coach House website: www.coachhousenorthbergen-com. The site also features pictures of what the Coach House looked like back in the day, its history and the Pappas’ business philosophy set forth by Clem Pappas. “When I would see him work never ever was the customer leaving dissatis-fied,” Pappas says about his dad. “You want to keep the place interesting so that your customer comes back two or three times a week. You know them by name they know you by name and it becomes an extension of your home.”

If you go:Coach House

Diner/Restaurant921 John F. Kennedy Blvd

North Bergen, NJ(201) 864-8600

www.coachhousenorthbergen.

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SUPER BOWL SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3RD, 2013 Super Bowl Sunday has become the most important event for sporting enthusi-asts throughout the United States and the world.Since the first Super Bowl was held back in 1967 won by the Green Bay Packers the super matchup between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Confer-ence (NFC) has worked out to the NFC wining 25 championships and the AFC

winning 21 of the Championship games. At stake in New Orleans on February 3rd when the San Francisco 49ers (NFC) play the Baltimore Ravens (AFC) the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy and of course, bragging rights for the winning teams, coaches and fans. This year’s Super Bowl game has some addedexcitement because the twoopposing coaches for the

49ers and Ravens are real life brothers Jim Harbaurg coach of the 49ers, and John Harbaurg Coach of the Ravens. To the sports world Super Bowl XLVII will be forever known as the “Har- Bowl.”Check out the list below to see how your team did in previous Super Bowls.

I-Green Bay Packer -1967II-Green Bay Packer -1968III-New York Jets-1969IV-Kansas City Chiefs-1970V-Baltimore Colts-1971VI -Dallas Cowboys-1972VII-Miami Dolphins- 1973VIII-Miami Dolphins -1974IX-Pittsburgh Steelers-1975X-Pittsburgh Steelers-1976XI-Oakland Raiders-1977XII-Dallas Cowboys-1978XIII-Pittsburgh Steelers-1979XIV-Pittsburgh Steelers -1980XV-Oakland Raiders-1981

XVI-San Francisco 49ers-1982XVII-Washington Redskins-1983XVIII-Los Angeles Raiders-1984XIX-San Francisco 49ers-1985XX-Chicago Bears-1986XXI-New York Giants-1987XXII-Washington Redskins-1988XXIII-San Francisco 49ers-1989XXIV-San Francisco 49ers-1990XXV-New York Giants-1991XXVI-Washington Redskins-1992XXVII-Dallas Cowboys-1993XXVIII-Dallas Cowboys-1994XXIX-San Francisco 49ers-1995XXX-Dallas Cowboys-1996XXXI-Green Bay Packers-1997XXXII-Denver Broncos-1998XXXIII-Denver Broncos-1999XXXIV-St. Louis Rams-2000XXXV-Baltimore Ravens-2001XXXVI-New England Patriots-2002XXXVII-Tampa Bay Buccaneers-2003XXXVIII-New England Patriots-2004XXXIX-New England Patriots-2005XL-Pittsburgh Steelers-2006XLI-Indianapolis Colts-2007XLII-New York Giants-2008XLIII-Pittsburgh Steelers-2009

XLIV-New Orleans Saints-2010XLV- Green Bay Packers- 2011XLVI- New York Giants 2012

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major changes in the area? New roads, housing or shopping developments, and expanded commercial activity could affect your home’s value--positively or negatively. In short, it pays to look ahead before you leap into your next home. SEARCHTo help you select a home that meets your present and future needs, check our link to our special online report, SEARCH: Quick Checklist For Finding The Perfect

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