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Extreme Mortman: When Super Bowl Sunday Collided with Senate Session Sunday
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Each legislative session of the U.S. Senate opens with a prayer.
Here's one thing you don't normally hear mentioned in the prayer: The Super Bowl.
But one day, that did happen.
"Lord, give our Senators unity to light the symphony with its variety of instruments, its many different notes which produce grand harmonies. May our lawmakers reduce these melodies on this Super Bowl Sunday."
That was Senate chaplain Dr. Barry Black.
With this year's Super Bowl approaching, this week's episode of C-SPAN's podcast "Extreme Mortman" remembers one historic day when U.S. Senators were debating and football teams were playing — both at the same time ... and both with a lot at stake.
When was the Senate in session on Super Bowl Sunday?
Why was the Senate in session on Super Bowl Sunday?
And which Senators talked about the Super Bowl — and what did they say?
Find out in this week's episode of C-SPAN's podcast "Extreme Mortman."
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