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Article: China hails Bears, Fridge
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 10, 1986
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PEKING The "Giant Bear of Chicago," led by Wei-lian "Bingxiang"
Po-li - also known as the Fridge - rumbled across Chinese television
screens yesterday, giving the communist nation its first taste of
Super Bowl fever in a replay of January's game.
Up to 300 million Chinese - more than the population of the
United States - watched the game in this country of more than 1
billion people, said China Central Television.
"It's fierce, it's intense," said 102-year-old Zhu Yongan as she
sat on her bed in Peking's Dongcheng district. "I've never seen
anything like it, and I don't get it at all."
The tape of Super Bowl XX was billed in newspaper television
listings as the "20th American Super ...