DAILY REPORT

For eight former UCLA Bruins, Sunday’s Super Bowl will be a homecoming of sorts. They will be returning to the site of their college games.

The players are quarterback Troy Aikman, offensive lineman Frank Cornish, linebacker Ken Norton, tight end Derek Tennell and safety James Washington of the Cowboys, and safety Matt Darby, nose tackle Mike Lodish and Patton of the Bills.

Aikman said he’s glad to be returning to Los Angeles because of all his friends here. But a word of warning to those friends: Don’t ask for tickets. “I’ve got a lot of friends asking me for tickets,” he said, “and at the rate it’s going, they may not be my friends any more.” . . . The Cowboys are scheduled to arrive at LAX today at 5 p.m. The team will stay at Loew’s Santa Monica and practice at UCLA.

A 24-year-old Cowboy fan from Arlington, Tex., who was arrested for stealing a television from a home in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, told police he stole it so he could watch the Super Bowl. He also told police he returned to the home to get the remote control. . . . A Dallas restaurant has taken Buffalo wings off its menu, and Buffalo, Tex., (Pop. 1,500) located in the southeastern part of the state, is changing its name. “The name of the town will become Blue Star, Texas,” Mayor Byron Ryder said.

There will be a seat cushion along with a packet of goodies in all 102,083 seats at the Rose Bowl next Sunday.

The packet will include a radio, trading cards, some in 3-D, and stunt cards for the halftime show.

Getting the seat cushions and the goodies placed in each seat obviously is no easy feat, particularly because the properly colored stunt cards have to be placed in designated areas.

Beginning Monday, 400 volunteers will work seven hours per day, every day, until the project is completed. In return, GTE will present a $10,000 grant to the Pasadena-based Football Area Community Services, which lined up the volunteers.

NAMES AND NUMBERS

CHAMPIONSHIP DROUGHTS

A look at longest waits between NFL titles:

1. Cardinals 44 years

2. Rams 40 years

3. Lions 34 years

4. Eagles 31 years

5. Oilers 30 years

6. Chargers 28 years

7. Browns 27 years

8. Bills 26 years

Note: NFL and AFL championships through 1969; Super Bowl champions I-XXVI

Source: World Features Syndicate

Associated Press contributed to this report.