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Issue 05, 2016 Founded by Betty Debnam fun facts Mini Fact: • The highest winning score in a Super Super Bowl Super Bowl was 55, earned by the San 50 will be Francisco 49ers against the played in Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV in 1990. Bowl the home • The have won stadium more Super Bowls than any other team (6). of the San • The Super Bowl is played on the Francisco first Sunday in February. 50 49ers. • The “home team” is the NFC team photo by Jim Bahn one year and the AFC team the next. Are you looking forward to a special • Members of winning teams receive A super name a Super Bowl . Each is designed a Sunday coming up next week? Lamar Hunt, the original owner of will be played on Sunday, Feb. 7, in . little differently, but all include jewels and the , started calling the the words “World It’s a big anniversary of the annual game that championship game the Super Bowl, and the decides a professional football champion. Champions.” name stuck. Each year, a Roman numeral is Pictured is the New The Mini Page takes a timeout to learn used to identify the Super .* Do more about the Super Bowl. England Patriots you know what the Roman numeral is for 50? ring from Super Early leagues (Find the answer hidden in this issue.) Bowl XLIX. The National Football So far, no team has played in its home • League was founded in stadium. and Miami have hosted 1920. For many years, there more Super Bowls than any other cities. (Pittsburgh photo courtesy nfl.com was no championship game. A big event Steelers), (San The champions were the team that had the Today, the Super Bowl is a huge event. Francisco 49ers) and (New best record during each . Advertisers pay millions of dollars and England Patriots) have won the most But in 1933, the league split into two create clever new commercials to show to Super Bowls, with four each. divisions, the Eastern and Western divisions. the hundreds of millions of people watching • There are 120 footballs used in each Division winners played a final game to on TV all across the world. Halftime shows Super Bowl game. declare a champion. feature popular singing acts. This year, The League was started will perform at halftime. in 1960 to challenge the NFL. The two Most Super Bowl fans will watch on TV, leagues decided to have their champions meet but thousands will get to see the game in Resources in a game in 1967, after the regular season person. The top ticket price for the 1967 Super had ended. The NFL’s and Bowl was $12. Today, people pay in the tens On the Web: the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs played in Los of thousands of dollars for a • NFLRush.com Angeles in the first Super Bowl. It was the only Super Bowl ticket! • usat.ly/1NnqsvS Super Bowl that was not sold out. The Packers won, 35-10. The winning team of the At the library: In 1969, the NFL and AFL merged into Super Bowl receives the • “Super Bowl” by James Buckley Jr. one league with two conferences, or groups: trophy, • “What Is the Super Bowl?” by Dina the American Football Conference and the named after the coach of Anastasio the Green Bay Packers, National Football Conference. Today, the who won the first two * This is the first Super Bowl that will use winners of each conference play in the Super Super Bowls. the Arabic number (50) instead of a Roman Bowl. L = 50 numeral. The Mini Page® © 2016 Universal Uclick

Try ’n’ Find Mini Jokes Words that remind us of the Super Bowl are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, Eli: What did the and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: football coach say to the broken vending machine? ADVERTISING, Tom: “Give me my !” W V G N I S I T R E V D A N D AMERICAN, BOWL, L E T E L E V I S I O N A A I Alex: What should a football team do if CHAMPION, L M E C N E R E F N O C E T V the field is flooded? CONFERENCE, A A K H B M U Y S I I R R I I Aaron: Bring on their subs! DIVISION, FOOTBALL, B G C Z A G H U P R O I O O S GAME, LEAGUE, T B I E A P P M E M N M C N I O O T E O E A M A G L Q S A O NATIONAL, NUMERAL, O W L R R H A N U M E R A L N Eco Note QUARTERBACK, RING, F L T K C A B R E T R A U Q X ROMAN, SCORE, Even a tiny leak in your SUPER, TEAM, TELEVISION, TICKET, TROPHY. home can waste a lot of water. A leak that fills up a coffee cup in 10 minutes will waste more than 3,000 gallons of water in a year! The Cook’s Corner biggest leakers are faucets and toilets. Nutty Cheese Log Fixing leaky plumbing can save up to 22 gallons of water every day! You’ll need: • 1/3 cup grated adapted with permission from “The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth” by The Earthworks Group, Andrews McMeel Publishing (andrewsmcmeel.com) • 1 (8-ounce) package reduced-fat parmesan cheese cream cheese • 1/2 cup chopped • 1/2 cup grated sharp cheddar pecans, divided For later: cheese • crackers Is your favorite team playing in Super Bowl 50? Ask your classmates and What to do: family who they’ll be rooting for. 1. Allow cream cheese to soften in a bowl.

2. Mix in other cheeses and 1/4 cup chopped pecans. 2016 Universal Uclick 3. Using a sheet of aluminum foil, shape cheese mixture into an 8-inch log. © Teachers: 4. Roll log in remaining chopped pecans. For standards-based activities to 5. Chill to combine flavors. Serve with crackers. accompany this feature, visit:

The Mini Page® bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching_guides.html * You’ll need an adult’s help with this recipe. need an adult’s * You’ll . 7 Little Words for Kids devices Amazon Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle. 1. where food is digested (7) STOM ERT DENT DE 2. it heats your house (7) Download the app on Apple and 3. what you eat after supper (7) LE ON SS LL . 4. not empty (4) 5. someone attending school (7) FU ACH CE NACE 6. crunchy green vegetable (6)

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7. what you color with (6) Answers: stomach, furnace, dessert, full, student, celery, crayon. celery, student, full, dessert, furnace, stomach, Answers: ©2016