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K Eids sTHE SCORE by Fred Bowen The football experts: TV’s starting lineups
cause he kicked his mother so much when she was pregnant with him.
James Brown: The host of the CBS show was born in Washington, and played basketball at DeMatha Catho- lic High School. Brown graduated from Harvard, where he was captain of the basketball team. Brown didn’t make it in the pros but went into broadcasting, where he is an all-star.
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CBS’s football team, from left: Shannon Sharpe, Dan Marino, James Brown, Bill Cowher and Boomer Esiason.
halftime shows. But kids must won- der who are those guys who talk about the games every Sunday? Why are they the experts? Here are the lineups for the CBS
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and Fox shows. We’re skipping the NBC and ESPN teams because most of you are probably in bed for much of the evening games— or you should be.
Here’s the CBS team Dan Marino:Marino led the Miami Dolphins to the Super Bowl in his sec- ond pro season while throwing for 48 touchdowns and more than 5,000 yards. But the Dolphins lost that game to the San Francisco 49ers, and Mari- no never made it back to another Su- per Bowl. But he is considered one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.
he National Football League (NFL) football season has started and that means lots of TV games with pregame and
Bill Cowher: The head coach of the
Pittsburgh Steelers for 15 seasons (1992 to 2006), Cowher led the Steel- ers to the Super Bowl championship in 2005. Take a good look at this guy. With his square jaw and fiery eyes, he looks like a football coach.
Shannon Sharpe: One of the best tight ends to play in the NFL, Sharpe caught 815 passes for more than 10,000 yards during his 14-year career with the Denver Broncos. Sharpe is proof a player from a small school can still make it. He went to Savannah State College (now Savannah State University).
Norman “Boomer” Esiason: Uni-
versity of Maryland football fans re- member Esiason as a terrific quarter- back for the Terps back in the 1980s. Esiason played for the Cincinnati Ben- gals, New York Jets and Arizona Car- dinals and was named to the Pro Bowl four times. He got his nickname be-
Here’s the Fox team Terry Bradshaw: He’s the guy who does most of the talking. Maybe that’s because Bradshaw won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s and ’80s. Bradshaw didn’t have great quarterback stats — he threw 212 touchdowns and 210 in- terceptions during his 14-year career — but he had a rifle arm.
Howie Long: Once, the Oakland Raiders were one of the NFL’s top
teams and Long was one of their de- fensive stars. He was a sack machine who made the Pro Bowl eight times and was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
Michael Strahan: Another great
defensive end, Strahan set the sack re- cord for a single season with 22.5 sacks in 2001 for the New York Giants. Another big star from a small school, Strahan played college ball at Texas Southern.
Jimmy Johnson: Johnson was the head coach of the University of Miami (1984 to 1988) and the Dallas Cowboys (1989 to 1993), two teams many fans loved to root against. Johnson’s teams played showboating, football, but they won.
in-your-face
Fred Bowen is the author of 14 books for kids that combine sports fiction and sports history, including a football book, “Touchdown Trouble.”
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Prepare yourself: Look, Muffy, another book about us preppy from C1
problem by throwing a beer sum- mit. That’s probably the preppiest thing about him.” Last week, Birnbach came to
D.C. to talk up “True Prep,” on which she collaborated with de- signer Chip Kidd. At Georgetown’s pastel shrine Vineyard Vines, 250 groupies clad in country-club best — plus Mack, a Jack Russell in a plaid collar — lined up. They po- litely sipped spiked Arnold Palm- ers while waiting for an audience with her. Many college students carried tattered copies of the origi- nal “OPH,” as they like to call it, snagged from their parents; virtu- ally all were in proper regalia, from pink polo shirts to needlepoint belts with oars. “I love preppy stuff,” said Maya Bhalla-Ladd, 13, a student at National Cathedral School who heard about the book in an e-mail blast from Lilly Pulit- zer. The next morning at L.L. Bean in
McLean (puh-leez don’t refer to it as Tysons Corner), the crowd was smaller, but heavy with stalwarts who got up early and slipped into monogrammed Jack Rogers san- dals to motor over from Staunton and Annapolis. “Are you wearing socks?” Birnbach asked J.C. Mc- Donough, 48, from Baltimore. “My people don’t wear socks.” McDonough hitched up his kha- kis to show bare ankles sticking out of his Alden loafers. “No ma’am,” he said. Close behind were sisters Erin and Sydney Simon, also from Balti- more. Birnbach gushed over their layers of prep bling, from Hermes belts to headbands to Tory Burch flip-flops — and a 2010 prep status symbol, the Goyard tote. (Erin Si- mon, 30, pens the prep blog letthetidepullyourdreamsashore.
blogspot.com.) Whether you read Birnbach’s books seriously or for laughs, you know that prep is central to Amer- ican pop culture — rappers wear Top-Siders and Twitter’s overca- pacity symbol is a whale. Then there’s skater-prep: black eyeliner, some plaid and Vans. Thirty years after “OPH,” there’s a huge preppy blogosphere dominated by 20- somethings obsessed with Lilly Pulitzer, pearls and pink-and- green.
“True Prep” lists a Prep Pantheon.
People such asMartha Stewart: “She fought with her girlfriend plus she wrote the cookbooks every prep has. And she did go to Barnard.” And Ben Bradlee: “What a dreamboat. I’ve never met him but if I did, I’d curt- sy.”
Thanks to retailers like Ralph
IT’S ALL ON THE WRIST: Erin Simon, center, and sister Sydney with Lisa Birnbach during her L.L. Bean appearance.
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rep decor, just like the clothing, is all about accessories. Thank goodness I got “The
Official Preppy Handbook” before
Imarried into the Eastern Establishment. You see, I was part of the Eastern European establishment. My husband’s Mummy went to
boarding school in Greenwich and wore battered Bass Weejuns into her 80s. My mother-in-law was not so sure, even though I owned multiple Lacoste shirts and always stocked Triscuits, that I could provide a suitably decorated home with enough monogrammed silver for her son. For an engagement gift, she presented me with a set of starched cocktail napkins hand-embroidered in Madeira with a Gypsy motif. She once commented that the living room her son and I had assembled “was decorated in the colors of the Lithuanian flag.” We ended up inheriting her portrait that now hangs in our bedroom and a collection of her large ashtrays.
But enough about me. I spoke to Lisa Birnbach about the essentials of prep decorating (besides a bar stocked with Bombay Sapphire and Schweppes).
It’s not 1980 anymore: What you need to make your home feel
well-prepped now
Preppy residences are no longer dreary, dust-filled, granny-style cribs with faded Oriental rugs. In “True Prep,” Birnbach offers a step-by-step guide to creating a proper family mudroom, accessorized with wellies, a potting table and an extra-large box of Goldfish from Costco. We asked her for more suggestions for
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the preppy love shack of 2010. Shag rugs. (Preppies love to dance and love to have sex.) Stacks of the late, great Domino magazine. “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters. Philippe Starck’s clear plastic Ghost
Chairs for Kartell. (After all, they are modern versions of classic antiques.) High-thread-count sheets. (They even sell them at Bed Bath & Beyond now. Don’t forget, preppies are cheap.) Stuff from thrift shops, preferably located in Old Guard towns such as Cos Cob or Chatham, where you’ll find castoffs from the right people. Ashes of ancestral dogs. Birnbach
keeps the cremains of her late Yorkie, Archie, in a box. Says Birnbach, “A dead dog is a decorating must.”
—Jura Koncius
Lauren, anyone can be a preppy. But the look and lifestyle are evolving just as much as they’re staying the same. The duck is no longer the most beloved of all prep totems (see- ing it on wastebaskets may have been the deal-breaker), and musical tastes have broadened beyond Si- natra and Motown to include Vam- pire Weekend and Kanye West. Birnbach herself, the product of Riverdale Country School in New York and Brown, is Jewish and grew up on Park Avenue. Daddy was in the diamond business. The family had a grand piano displaying family photos and a Connecticut country house dotted with decoys and por- traits. She wears her grandmother’s pearls and her own slightly pilled L.L. Bean cashmere sweaters. Washington had a major role in the writing of “OPH.” Birnbach snagged a summer internship here in 1977 and discovered that the prep- o-meter ran very high. “I found something here unlike anything I had seen anywhere else,” Birnbach says. “Everyone had the attitude, ‘I am on the make this summer, and if I don’t wear my Wharton baseball cap and my Dartmouth running shorts when I go to the Social Safe- way, I don’t have a chance.’ ” After “OPH,” Birnbach hit the col-
lege lecture circuit, wrote more books and was a TV and radio corre- spondent. Now divorced, Birnbach lives in Manhattan with her three kids.
So why did she wait so long for the sequel? “Evidently, I ignored the ad- vice of many close friends who urged me to write a new book about preppies, for the last 15 yrs or so,” Birnbach tweeted last week. “Sorry!” By the way, if you saved your “Offi-
cial Preppy Handbook” in the attic, good for you: It’s out of print. Copies in good condition, originally $3.95, are going for about $60 and up on Amazon and eBay. As Granddaddy always said, there is no shame in used.
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