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Article: Final Two Looking for the Big One; Both Coaches Are Familiar With Super Bowls, but Only Holmgren Has Won It All
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- The Washington Post
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- February 4, 2006
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When the coaches of the two Super Bowl teams annually conduct
their final news conferences on the Friday before the game, each is
asked to pose with the Lombardi Trophy -- given Sunday night to the
victorious club -- before exiting the stage. And, almost
invariably, at least one of the coaches refuses to touch the coveted,
glistening trophy, not wanting to seem presumptuous by clutching the
hardware before earning rightful possession of it.
Seattle Seahawks Coach Mike Holmgren was asked here Friday if he
had any such superstition. "No," Holmgren said. "I'll touch it any
chance I get, and hope to be able to touch it again."
Holmgren and his Pittsburgh Steelers counterpart, Bill Cowher, ...