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When Super Bowl Sunday Collided with Senate Session Sunday

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…

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