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NEW YORK -- Legions of die-hard Star Wars fans braved a dip in the April weather as they anxiously awaited the opening of select toy retailers for the midnight launch of toy lines from "Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones."The Toys "R" Us Times Square store in New York City threw open its doors at 12:01 a.m., filing approximately 200 fans toward wholesale costumes for kids its second floor star wars display. the retailer outfitted its largest special feature shop as a star wars museum of spiderman sorts, complete with an authentic luke clients can hang out with some of nickelodeon''s popular cartoon characters or their favorite super heroes while staying at universal orlando this spring and summer.the nicktoon spring fling adult costumes for the pluse size women and for (valid for travel through june 27) and the super hero summer vacation (valid for travel between june 30 and sept. 1) both feature five days'' unlimited admission to universal studios and islands of adventure, front-of-line access to all universal toddlers orlando attractions and city walk party passes. it is so tempting to project the demise of the raiders, this brooding franchise with its paranoid owner and obsession with greatness and slights, real and imagined. wholesale you can hear it now, the way they will proclaim ad nauseam their virtues and achievements, ignoring how they haven''t been to a super bowl since the 1983 season--a lapse that threatens their self-labeled "team of the decades" boast.they will drag with them the worst fans in football, weirdos who buy tickets for the right to act as if they come from some faraway planet spiderman covered in silver and black. these strange folks are reason enough to wonder about a raiders win.yet win they will. there is something to how planets align at times, falling nearly into place even in the nfl universe. this is the raiders'' time, the next step in their progression. beaten by the ravens in the afc title game after the 2000 season, by the infamous tuck rule adult plush fur costumes for halloween in last season''s playoffs, they have cleared away all but one obstacle this season. and it just happens to be, for of all folks, jon toddlers gruden, the admired chucky whose national persona, of course, was molded as the coach of these very same raiders. monte kiffin looks like a sidekick to an old-time western movie star. his face is thin, lined and florida tanned, and he sort of crackles when he talks. he is nothing close to what you would expect of a premier defensive mind, but mister, can this man coach. he''s been at it 20 years in the nfl, wholesale seven with the bucs, a career assistant with gifts matched by very few of his peers.in a super bowl full of these dark and shining story lines, kiffin''s aw-shucks demeanor spiderman and costumes isn''t going to command the room. but his schemes will envelop the raiders'' offensive coaching staff, for sure, in for the days and hours before this championship game."they put you toddlers to an extreme mental test," says chris palmer, the texans'' offensive coordinator. "what they do is not extremely complicated. but it is executed incredibly well by a lot of great athletes. you face a team with undersized linebackers but with overall tremendous team speed. they say speed kills. tampa is a perfect example."
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