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| | School spirit soars before The Game |
 | | The promise of lasers, fireworks, marching bands, huge retail sales, a media horde, 61,000 people and the Penn State University football team were not enough to keep Matt Weinzierl in Pittsburgh today. |
 | | The traditional gridiron rivalry, dating back more than 100 years and infused with the kind of generational biases usually reserved for politics and meat loaf, is going on hiatus for at least the next eight years. |
 | | As for the media, the university's athletic office reported that 230 press passes were issued for today's game, about 100 more than usual. |
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