NFL Charities Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic
Staff Writer
2011-01-12
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Legendary NFL stars and Pro Football Hall of Fame members confirmed to participate in the Classic include (subject to change): Hank Bauer, Marlin Briscoe, Keith Byars, Randy Cross, Preston Pearson, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, Jerry Kramer, John Randle, Parnell Dickinson, Marv Fleming, Charles Haley, Rodney Hampton, Reggie Haynes, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Ted Hendricks, Lamonte Hunley, Ricky Hunley, Roy Jefferson, Brian Kelley, Kent Kramer, Sean Landeta, Tom Mack, Chuck Foreman, Joey Browner, Randall McDaniel, Curtis McGriff, Chuck Mercein, Michael Merriweather, Bobby Mitchell, Tom Nowatzke, Lance Smith, Jan Stenerud, Jimmy Taylor, Roger Wehrli, Fred Williamson and Garo Yepremian.
One of the premier annual events leading up to the Super Bowl, the NFL Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic will be twice as big in 2011. For the first time in its six year history, the Classic will be extended to a two-day event as the Super Bowl comes to the DFW region, the "Bowling Capital of the World." In addition to serving as the host city of Super Bowl XLV, to be played at Cowboys Stadium, Arlington is home to the International Bowling Campus which houses the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame and the International Training and Research Center. Dual sport Hall of Famer – football and bowling – Lynn Swann returns for his fifth year as host of the Classic, this year doing double duty with appearances at both events: 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 2 at 300 Dallas in Addison, Texas and 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 3 at the Main Event in Fort Worth.
"They say that everything is bigger in Texas, so it's only appropriate that we extend the NFL Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic into a two-day bowling extravaganza in Dallas-Fort Worth, the bowling capital of the world," said Swann. "Unlike the actual Super Bowl, if you don't play well in the Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic, you get a second chance in our two-day event."