It Always Seems as Though the 0.6 Fan Hogs All the Chips

During the Super Bowl, male heads of households will largely be in charge of the TV remote control, and three-fourths of all viewers will watch the game in their own homes amid a gathering of 4.6 fans, according to the results of a national survey.

Five hundred Americans who intend to watch the game were asked some of their plans for Sunday.

There will be a lot of snacking going on. Chips and soft drinks top the list of what they expect to consume. Nearly seven in 10 say they will probably eat chips and finger foods, followed by popcorn, nachos, pretzels and peanuts.

After the salty stuff, came such novelties as buffalo burgers, venison, beef tongue, steak tartar, sushi, frog’s legs and escargot.

Add Super Bowl: If given the opportunity to watch the game with a celebrity, those polled favored Joe Montana and Michael Jordan, followed by President Clinton, John Elway, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rush Limbaugh.

Trivia time: What is the record for the biggest largemouth bass caught in California waters?

No respect: Duke rooters poked fun at Charlie Ward, Florida State’s Heisman Trophy winner who led the Seminoles to the national championship in football, when he turned up on the basketball court.

After Duke took a 48-25 lead, the crowd shouted, “Need three touchdowns!” and “Stick to football!”

The right spot: When Dallas Coach Jimmy Johnson guaranteed that the Cowboys would defeat the San Francisco 49ers, Dom Amore of the Hartford Courant noted that it could not have been been made in a more appropriately named room: The Peacock Terrace.

Top billing: Headline in New York Daily News on Super Bowl matchup: “Pokes and Jokes.”

Bing’s boy: Former U.S. Amateur champion Nathaniel Crosby will play in what was once his dad’s tournament, now the AT&T; Pebble Beach Pro-Am, as an amateur. Crosby regained his amateur status in time for next week’s tournament after a few years of trying to make it as a professional.

Changing times: In 1969, five of the eight women’s quarterfinalists in the Australian Open were Australian and six of the last eight men were Aussies. The women’s championship was won by Margaret Court and the men’s by Rod Laver.

This year, no Australian man or woman made it past the fourth round of the singles.

Trivia answer: Twenty-two pounds, caught, weighed on a certified scale and photographed by Bob Crupi, who then released it back into Lake Castaic.

Start the bidding: The Southern California Ducks will hold a fund-raising dinner Thursday night at the Chino fairgrounds and raffle items include the usual, such as duck and goose hunts, a 24-bird pheasant hunt, a trip to a hunting ranch in Idaho and framed wildlife prints.

In the midst of these items, however, was a Kansas City Chief helmet autographed by Joe Montana.

How did that get in there?

Quotebook: Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns: “I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating. I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.”