BBQ vs. Cheesesteaks: Super Bowl LVII running thread

Stanley Wilson, Eugene Robinson and Ray Lewis all nod in agreement.

 

Don’t forget Barret Robbins.

 

Someone must be cutting onions in here

 

The best was the year where Eugene Robinson(?) won NFL man of the year and then got arrested the night before the game for soliciting a booker.

 

My favorite Super Bowl news story was at XXXII, when Denver beat the Packers in San Diego. The Lewinsky story broke early that week. It's the front page of every newspaper on earth -- except one. The banner on the Green Bay Press-Gazette, delivered to the press room that evening was "Packer fans charter runs out of beer." I think they drank it dry before the plane went over Omaha.

 

An undercover cop posing as a hooker, as I recall.

 

Yep

 

Where have you gone, Jim McMahon mooning a News chopper and calling the women of New Orleans sluts (second one was fake news but a New Orleans kerfuffle for Supe XX.

 

Betcha can't guess the author by this headline: What choosing Rihanna tells us about hypocrisy of Roger Goodell's NFL

 

Please. That's the lowest of low-hanging fruit.

 

An early morning Super Bowl XXXII memory for Super Sunday. I wake up early, and went downstairs in the hotel to get some breakfast. One area of the lobby was being completely redecorated. Out were going the Super Bowl trappings, in was coming fake stuffed leather upholstery, heavy wooden desks and Hollywood prop bookshelves. The reason. Every pol in Congress wanted to get on TV for the Sunday blather shows to opine on the Lewinsky affair, but those pols who were in San Diego were not eager to let their constituents know they were whooping it up at the Super Bowl rather than tending to weighty matters of state. So Face the Nation and like that had an "important pol's office" set constructed where once there had been pictures of John Elway and Brett Favre.

 

When Clinton was acquitted at his impeachment, that was a skybox teaser on the front of the Valdosta Daily Times. Poor Bill had the bad timing to beat the rap the same day as another Cats state championship in football.