Dear Readers,
On Jan. 12, 1969, quarterback Joe Namath led the New York Jets to a 16-7 victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in the first game officially known as the "Super Bowl." IN the prior two years, in what was simply known as the NFL-AFL Championship, the Green Bay Packers of the NFL won easily, and it was expected that the Colts would trounce the Jets.
On the Thursday before the game, while accepting an award from the Miami Touchdown Club, Namath responded to a heckler who said the Colts would win easily. "We're going to win," he said. "I guarantee it." Days later, Namath ran triumphantly off the field while waving his index finger, having made good on his guarantee, and the Super Bowl had gone from a mere final football game to a national spectacle.
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan on January 12, 1949. He is one of Japan's most famous novelists. Until age 29, however, he never considered himself capable of writing a book. Instead, he owned a jazz bar that allowed him to endlessly indulge his passion for music. After the success of his first two books, Murakami became a full-time writer, producing a prolific body of work including "A Wild Sheep Chase" and "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." He has taught at Princeton University and won multiple literary awards throughout his career.
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