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Byline: Chuck Carlton
DALLAS _ The Super Bowl proved that 2004 was going to be a far different sports year.
The Page 1 headlines the next day skipped past a remarkable finish and quarterbacks Tom Brady and Jake Delhomme to focus on halftime entertainers Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
Immediately, "wardrobe malfunction" joined the national vocabulary.
Apologies soon followed, a pattern that would be repeated again and again _ a sorry year in more ways than one.
In the next 11 months, 2004 brought things we had never seen before, and things we didn't need to see.
We witnessed brutality on the ice, a chair thrown in the stands and players battling spectators.