QUICK KICKS

THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MEDIA: More than a dozen reporters and broadcasters covering the Super Bowl requested tee times at Atlanta golf courses Thursday . . . and it was raining.

* THE I-REMEMBER-JIMMY-CARTER AWARD: To Nate Newton of the Dallas Cowboys, who said, “I don’t give a flying jack rabbit about last year.”

* FINALLY, A WAY FOR ROSEANNE TO ATONE FOR HER MUTILATION OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM: A serious petition circulated throughout Super Bowl venues this week calls for the addition of women’s mud wrestling to the 1996 Summer Olympics here.

* THIS SHOULD BE GOOD: Natalie Cole, who will sing the national anthem Sunday at the Super Bowl, has not sung it in several years and said she will probably never sing it again.

Reason? The last time she sang it, at a Laker game in Boston several years ago, she forgot the words.

“I am scared to death,” she

said.

* COUNTRY SMUG: Clint Black, a country music singer and one of the halftime performers at the Super Bowl, was asked if it will be difficult following last year’s spectacular show by Michael Jackson.

“Maybe not these days,” he said.

* BERNIE KOSAR WILL BE LOOKING HER UP: Tanya Tucker, another halftime performer, said that after last year’s Super Bowl in Pasadena, Cowboy backup quarterback Steve Beuerlein missed the team plane because he was partying all night at her house.

* ARE YOU READING THIS, RAMS? The city of Baltimore has received 12,000 season-ticket requests for the 1994 Canadian Football League season.

Not bad, considering the city doesn’t have a team, doesn’t have a pending agreement with a team and hasn’t tried to sell any tickets.

* VALLEY OF THE NUMB: With the sudden firing of Joe Bugel, the tension on the Phoenix Cardinals has become turmoil. And they are just one step from chaos.

If Bob Ackles takes a job as general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles--he’s one of six finalists--the Cardinals will be without a general manager, coach, player personnel director, and director of college scouting.

Among the favorites to replace Bugel are San Francisco 49er offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan and Kansas City Chief coordinator Paul Hackett.

Owner Bill Bidwill would like Norv Turner, but the Cowboy offensive coordinator appears sold on joining the Washington Redskins.

* HEAVYWEIGHT PUNCH: If Jerry Jones ever seriously thought about coaching the Dallas Cowboys when Jimmy Johnson leaves, he might want to read this quote from Ken Norton Jr.

first.

“Jerry could be one of those coaches who sits up there on a platform with a little bugle horn and says, ‘Come on, guys.’ ” Norton said. “But he better leave the X’s and O’s to somebody else.”