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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Football. Division I-A teams are allowed to play Division I-AA teams, but it doesn't count as much in your BCS ranking. Remember Pitt needed OT to beat I-AA Furman next year? I guess the YSU Penguins are on the schedule for this year.
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aha....well not to date myself, but i will.... i was a freshman when Tony Dorsett won the Heisman. and he still pronounced it DORsett at that point too. : ) used to walk around campus in a big ole full length fur coat too.
I love how those idiots at the NCAA with a straight face tell us how difficult a playoff system would be. Meanwhile Divsion I-A, II, and III do it every year.
"I have a band; it's called 'my band.' "
Sometimes I just have to like Paul inspite of myself. Don't like 90% of his music, disagree with him almost completely on politics and diet... and yet I must smile at the fact that he's just a cool guy.
This song was written by Mary Fahl for the movie "The Guys", about the firefighters in the WTC on 9/11. This is the one that tears me up.
This morning early I walked on
while my darling was in a dream
The last sweet days of summer bloomed
and dressed the trees in green
Then soaring high in the gleaming sky
from far across the bay
came a fearsome roar from a distant shore
at the dawning of the day
Then I called my men to follow me
knowing well that the view was dim
Though tired and worn, how they fought all morn'
as time was closing in
And my heart was sad though sore with pride
for brave lads all were they
As the angels fly, how they climbed so high
on the dawning of the day
But the edge is moving nearer now
inside the fading sun
and calling, calling out to them
my brothers, one by one
But only dust silence sounds
The ashes float away
as the twilight ends and the night descends
'til the dawning of the day
Forgive me love, I'm going now
so very far away
When darkness falls, only think me near
and do not be afraid
And please don't grieve when I am gone
Abide in what remains
'til the shadows end and we meet again
on the dawning of the day
For when shadows end,
we shall meet again
on the dawning of the day
Sorry - the title is "Dawning of the Day", by Mary Fahl
I get my best sleep of the NFL season after the Super Bowl. There's the big emotional crash after having been all psyched for the last 5 months. Of course I'm in the mountain time zone so the game ends in the early evening here.
My nomination for stupidest song in the history of the universe, beyond MacArthur Park and Sugar Sugar: Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey.
The Eagles are evil.
Last year I didn't get any sleep at all. I was to busy watching the post game stuff.
The Super Bowl is only one night. The Red Sox almost killed me because it was night after night.
You or he? Had the coat, I mean
I went to CMU a decade later. I think the grease for the O fries was still the same. ;-)
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i wish i had his coat! do you know they put an O in Plum Boro? sacrilege to try to bring it out to the burbs that way. you must be a pointyhead having gone to CMU ; )
Real men discuss issues on FreeRepublic and watch the well paid gladiators only if they have time. Professional sports has robbed American men of their natural calling--politics.
And World Series games happen so damn late. They don't end until at least 9 here, and that's during DST so we're aligned with Pacific time. I can see how that would kill somebody in Maine.
It's really rough. I can't get to sleep right after the game so I watch the post game stuff as well. There was a lot of coffee sold in New England during the baseball playoffs.
Yeah MLB really has to move their schedule. 7:30 EDT is fine, everybody in PDT can find a way to get out of work early (like I do for the Stanley Cup, won't my boss be happy about my schedule this June) or join late, games will be over on the east before the late news. I'd like to the Super Bowl move another hour or two earlier, I'm in the Mike Ditka school, football is a game that should be played on a Sunday afternoon. I mean it's February, not like it's gonna be hot or anything.
I think one of the things that is killing the NBA is that their Finals games start even later than the World Series games!
That and the "best" team in the league has like a 20% shooting average. The fundamentals are dead in the NBA and it makes the sport much less interesting to watch.
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