Posted on 02/04/2005 4:19:38 AM PST by beyond the sea
Yesterday the league scheduled a news conference to announce the most complex halftime show ever attempted ,then, in a moment so genuine it barely belonged to this week or any other in the Super Bowl's manic history, someone introduced Paul McCartney.
Bounding on stage in a faded red sweatshirt and jeans, Sir Paul offered a respectful salute and took questions. A thousand crabby, jaded journalists looked transported.
"Questions for Paul?"
What? Questions for Paul McCartney?
"Paul, what band will you be performing with?"
"My band."
"No, what band?"
"I have a band; it's called 'my band.' "
McCartney allowed a certain conceit that he's probably here as the anti-Janet, promised to keep the show mammary free, and acknowledged, "I don't have a wardrobe to malfunction, so no worries on that score."
A young woman asked, since he was wearing red and blue, was he a Patriots fan.
"This is just slung on, honey."
With the same breezy manner that was just as infectious yesterday as it was in 1964, McCartney figured that even though we're here hyping this thing eight days a week, he might be here to put a global audience totaling close to 1 billion back in touch with something grandly simple.
"The message of my music is generally peace, love and come together," he said, "and that's as good a message as I can deliver. It's the same old one, but I can't think of anything better."
This is probably just me, but shouldn't there be a Paul McCartney news conference before every game? Not just every Super Bowl, every single game. That'd make next year's Pitt-Youngstown State fray a little more palatable, wouldn't it?
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BTW: funny pic!
Oh, yes, and being a state that voted only 17/13 (56%/43%) doesn't make you all THAT red...
I think I'd heard about an incident like that too - but it was more like "pi$$ed in his Cheerios"...
ROFL.
Eat a lot of cheese when you listen to that music, that will help to control your heaving bowels.
LOL!
You sure have a high opinion of your judgement. You really must wonder how much more intelligent you would be if you had only gotten some oxygen at birth.
;-)
Your overwhelming criticism of the Country and Western music of the past 20 some years, is doing little to disguise your inferiority complex.
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She Thinks My Tractors' Sexy.
Nice.
Oh yea and since the game is going to suck I'll be watching something else for the rest of the time. Probably Blackhawk Down or Spiderman 2.
She has a real interesting story too! She is soooo beautiful, and she can sing pretty well too!
Ditto
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"Live Like You Were Dying"
"It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long"
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
"Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)"
"Come On Over"
"Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days)"
The Philly defense applauds as Dillon runs by. HAHAHAHAHA.
Me too, but it was around 10:00 a.m.
Ya know, most blocks still get swatted to teammates. Not everyone has the same skill to repeat it, but the players are superior athletes, they're taller and ACTUALLY shooting percentages are UP from Bill's days. Not from the 80s maybe, but then tehy didn't play D like they do now.
And with more European players, one would think "fundamentals" would actually have increased. Sure, there are trends in sports but I don't know if it's 'fundamentals' or if it's more to do with certain skills being emphasized during certain eras.
Whiskey Lullaby
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She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
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Man, that song knocks me out.
If insult is going to be the tone of your responses: go diddle your daughter; again. Maybe this time the cops'll get 'ya.
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