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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
Vince Lombardi Championship Trophies from Dolphin victories in Super Bowl VII and VIII.
April 2007 photo by Mario J. Bermudez taken at Miami Dolphins Headquarters, Davie, Florida.
Sports Illustrated January 21, 1974
Zonk! Miami Massacres Minnesota
Larry Csonka
It's why you play the game.
For more on this longstanding wistfulness, see my Super Bowl blog post from last year, February 6, 2011, "Lombardi. A certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and cold November mud..."; Packers will win by at least 8!
NY Giants defensive players have to resort to faking injuries in order to keep St. Louis Rams no-huddle offense from steamrolling them. Sept. 20, 2011. http://youtu.be/eY26rgd4aps
It's not officially a Super Bowl until Alyssa Milano comes to Indy. NOW it's on!
Above, Alyssa wearing her signature Touch by Alyssa Milano New England Patriots Sweater Mix Jacket, the sort of thing you may've seen at the NFL Experience if you were in Indy while she was there schmoozing with fans and doing some promotional work for her popular line of NFL-themed women's clothing. (I went to the one in D.C. held on the National Mall when the NFL started doing that to start off the season and held it in the NFL city hosting the first Monday Night Football game; if I remember correctly, they later had a mini-concert there by Journey, which I missed, since I rushed home to watch the game on TV.) But while I have chosen to show Alyssa wearing Patriots gear above because I'm picking them to beat the Giants by at least ten points tonight, as you can see from the photos of her at her always amusing posterous photo blog, which as I've mentioned here previously, I've subscribed to for a while now, she's actually pulling for the NY Football Giants. http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/date-night-in-indy
----- Giving credit where credit is due: diabolical genius! Deadspin: "What Time Does The Super Bowl Start, He Wrote As A Headline To Game The Google Results"
The post was sinister and dumb and ruthless and brilliant, and a good indicator of why the HuffPo's traffic numbers are so insane.
Yes,57% of likely Super Bowl viewers say no to Madonna as halftime entertainment, and I'm with them. For about the 20th year in a row I won't watch the halftime, but instead mute the TV and listen to what they're saying on the radio broadcast, in case someone stumbles accidentally into telling the the truth.
By the way, the 57% opposed to Madonna is a higher percentage of American than have voted for any winning presidential candidate since November of 1984. (President Reagan was re-elected with 58.8% of the vote to former Vice President Walter Mondale's 40.6%.)
Two months after that election was the last Super Bowl the Dolphins played in, a 38-16 loss to the 49ers. To give you some perspective, no woman now or recently appearing in Playboy was alive when the Dolphins last played in the Super Bowl. Just saying... epic mediocrity spans decades.
Here's some more perspective on those 27 years:
1985: The last time the Dolphins made it to the Super Bowl.
Story: Jake Cline, Sun Sentinel, Photo gallery: Melina I. De Rose, Sun Sentinel
Below, an excellent historical analysis of Super Sunday from John Maxham, an advertising executive at Seattle's Cole & Weber United. He "gets it."
Apart from being an effective and fun marketing gimmick, the use of Roman numerals in the Super Bowl may offer a deeper insight into our national psyche
----- Two last things: If Tom Coughlan and Eli Manning were with the Seattle Seahawks, and had the same back story and stats, and were now in the Super Bowl, nobody-but-nobody would be talking the nonsense I've heard so much of this past week, on ESPN and elsewhere, about how IF they win against the Patriots, they're locks to get into Canton. Who decided that?
It's because they're with the New York Giants. Period.
Again, I like the Patriots by at least ten points.
Madcon - Glow - 2009 Eurovision Song Contest Flashmob Dance Finale (HD), Oslo, Norway. May 2009. http://youtu.be/32lpdFS7rPM
It starts a little slow, I'll grant you, but at 2:19, as the cameras leave the arena, then, serendipity...
After watching this, I'm convinced that a televised singing and dancing flash mob across the U.S.A., during the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, would be MUCH MORE FUN to see than simply watching Madonna perform a medley of her well-known songs in Indy at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Or, perhaps more interesting than even that, would be to have it televised from the two cities which have teams playing, as people sing and dance wearing their -quite likely- Green Bay Packercheeseheads and Baltimore Ravens purple jerseys and gear.
Me,I never watch the Super Bowl pre-game programming anymore, as there are far too many 'human interest' stories with female reporters trying to look empathetic as they interview some special-team player's sister's husband's barber with cancer, or the like.
I usually mute the TV during Super Bowl halftime anyway, and flip on the radio telecast to hear their analysis, so this would actually be more fun and amusing to watch and see how each city tries to top the other somehow. And it would be easy to find a commercial sponsor, too!
Whatever happened to all the genuinely dangerous flash mobs, anyway?
Like the ones that terrorized Chicagoland and Philadelphia this spring and summer, which I wrote about here, along with some startling videos?
They seem to have stopped in their tracks once 'Occupy Wall Street' came on the scene. Hmm-m...
Then again, maybe it's just a spring and summer phenomena...
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In case you forgot why the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest-above- was being held in the Oslo area in the first place, it was because Norway's Alexander Rybak had won the 2009 competition in Moscow with"Fairytale", and the next competition is always hosted by the winner's home country.
