ATLANTA -- Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams is sharing the joy of his first Super Bowl by bringing 40 teenagers from Nashville for the game.
The teenagers were picked from six United Way agencies for the trip of a lifetime.They were scheduled to leave Tennessee today by bus and stay at the Titans' hotel in Atlanta. Adams said he has tickets waiting for them on the 50-yard line at the Georgia Dome, and they will fly back to Nashville on the team charter Monday.
A pair of Super Bowl tickets also have been donated to the Red Cross. A drawing will be held and the tickets given to someone who has given blood in Nashville this week. Adams said he heard they have been getting 1,000 pints of blood donated a day compared to the normal 30 or so.
L.A. RAMS REDUX: The St. Louis Rams still have some fans in their old haunts in Los Angeles.
Asked for her Super Bowl prediction, Elizabeth Taylor said from her Bel-Air home that she is picking St. Louis.
"I'm for the Rams because I once had a boyfriend who played for the Rams -- Glenn Davis -- one of the greats who was an All-American when he played at West Point. But then he had to leave for the war, which delighted my mother because he was in Korea and I was in L.A. -- the idea of a perfect romance for her daughter! So I hope the Rams win up and down!"
Kirk Douglas is also a Rams fan despite the team's defection from Southern California.
"I always bet on the Rams," Douglas said, "because I think they're still in Los Angeles. They win by three points."
TV producer Aaron Spelling is also a Rams man, predicting a 24-10 win over the Tennessee Titans.
"If the Rams don't win, I'll have to hock my wife's jewelry," Spelling said.
SKIPPING OUT: Rams kick returner Tony Horne could be fined by the NFL for leaving a mandatory team press conference on Wednesday.
"I came out and nobody talked to me, so I left," Horne said. "They said it was a media day, but nobody really said it was mandatory, that I would get fined. It was a Super Bowl rookie type of mistake. I came back down for the last 10 minutes."
SUPER BET: In what has become a yearly tradition, the governors of the two states involved in the Super Bowl made a friendly wager over the outcome of Sunday's game.
Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan is betting Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist a case of St. Louis' celebrated toasted ravioli that the Rams beat the Titans.
Sundquist wagered a basket of Tennessee food products, including succulent Tennessee ham.
There's also a side bet to please animal lovers: St. Louis-based Ralston Purina Co. agreed to donate 1,000 pounds of animal food to the Humane Society of the winning governor's choice.
"I think this is a pretty fair proposition," Carnahan said. "I will be happy to taste test the Tennessee ham to see whether it matches up to our Missouri hams."
Sundquist said he loves Italian food, "and I look forward to receiving the ravioli from Gov. Carnahan after the Titans' big win in the Super Bowl."
Toasted ravioli is a crunchy specialty that originated on The Hill, St. Louis' Italian neighborhood. In 1947, a cook at Angelo's Restaurant accidentally dropped ravioli -- which is usually boiled -- into a deep fryer.
GOT MILK: The winning Super Bowl quarterback will appear in an ad in USA Today on Monday with the familiar Got Milk? mustache.
Either Kurt Warner or Steve McNair will join Terrell Davis, Brett Favre, Steve Young, Reggie White, John Elway and Chris Chandler as past Super Bowl players who appeared in the milk ad.
THE MAN BEHIND THE STAR: San Diego Chargers safety Rodney Harrison, whose hit led to Rams QB Trent Green being lost for the season with a knee injury and opened the way for Kurt Warner's MVP season, says he should be the most popular man in St. Louis.
"To the people of St. Louis, I just want to ask them, are they still mad at me? They hated me at first. They cussed me out for two weeks. But I haven't heard anything now. I should be the most famous man in St. Louis now, besides Kurt Warner. He should be sending me part of his signing bonus. He's gone from making $5 bagging groceries to being a $5 million quarterback. If that hadn't happened, then he probably never would have gotten an opportunity.