Tom vs. Patrick -- Super Bowl LV thread

Prolly a Vikings game

 

I was trying to remember the game.

It was in the early 90s.

Fuck I'm old.

 

My friend produced a lot of spots, worked with some names.

Told the story of one who was just froze on set, couldn't pull it together.

Comedic actor. Just incredibly sad deal.

 

How I envisioned it after hearing about Reid's son ...

1, Andy chooses not to coach the SB out of concern for optics and respect for the kid's family
2, Bieniemy named acting head coach
3, Chiefs rally around Bieniemy ...
... 4, for Coach Reid!
5, Chiefs win by 21-30
6, Social media demands that Andy Reid retire
7, Social media further demands that the Chiefs name Bieniemy new head coach
8-100, White noise
101, Haven't gotten to this point yet.

 

If you don't have a rooting interest in today's game, Brown's presence the Tampa roster is the very best reason to root for the Chiefs.

 

Watch Bruce Springsteen's First Commercial Appearance in Jeep Super Bowl Ad

 

Fun read by former LA Times sports editor Bill Dwyre. I'm sharing a chunk in case it's paywalled. LAT spent more than $10k for two articles in 1987

The year I assigned Leon Uris to cover the L.A. Super Bowl - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

In ’87, when the Super Bowl was at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, I upped my game. It would be the Giants and the Broncos, and I decided to hire, for an advance story and game coverage, a nationally known writer. In retrospect, that was foolish. I already had Murray.

Assistant sports editor John Cherwa helped with the search. We almost had James Michener, but he was about to have surgery. Cherwa struck out with Stephen King and Robert Ludlum. He even tried Neil Simon, who might have woven the opposing Super Bowl coaches into an Odd Couple. Then I remembered I had read the novel “Trinity” by Leon Uris — one of his several books that sold millions of copies. We tracked him down and he said yes.

My rationale seemed sensible at the time. When Uris wrote, they made movies. When we wrote, they made fish wrappings.

Uris was a big Broncos fan. The deal was $5,000 for a preview story and $5,000 more for a gameday, deadline piece, plus expenses at a fancy Newport Beach hotel. His preview story was very good. Which brought us to gameday.

The Rose Bowl press box was cozy, and I had filled a large percentage of it with L.A. Times sports writers. The game went on, the Broncos lost — as they always did in the Super Bowl before John Elway figured it out — and I wandered the press box, making assignments and stressing deadline. In the prime seats, I had Uris between Murray and Jack Smith, also a legendary Times columnist, who was there to write for the casual sports fan.

As deadline approached, I saw that Smith already had headed home after filing his story and Murray was packing up, once again having written prose that would dazzle L.A. readers. Still seated in front of his laptop was Uris. Cherwa alerted me that there were only a few paragraphs on his screen. Uris saw me and started screaming, telling me that I had set him up, that I had unfairly seated him next to Murray and that he had looked at Murray’s screen and saw this marvelous prose, created in about 30 minutes, and that there was no way he could do that.

“Do you know how long it takes me to write one of my books?” he said. “Years and years. This deadline stuff is insane. I can’t do this.”

He sent what he had written to my screen and left. I never saw him again. We finished whatever angle he had begun and sent it to the office. It was the shortest, least compelling $5,000 story ever run in The L.A. Times.

 

Pop psychology but Andy Reid’s obsession with coaching isn’t healthy.
Is Reid a pitiable figure or not?

 

There are bad Super Bowl halftimes and there are still Black Eyed Peas Super Bowl halftimes.

 

No one has a healthy obsession with coaching.

Pitiable? Nah.

 

Joan Jett looked fierce