Superbowl Sunday
January 30th, 2009
This Sunday is Super Bowl XLIII and you know what that means…waking up Monday with a hangover and Buffalo sauce all over your shirt. This weekend, passes will be made, lines will be crossed and bodies will collide. And that is just at the party. What’s not to love? Only in America is a major sports championship celebrated by getting together with a dozen or so friends, gorging on junk food and sucking down booze like Billy Joel before a Sunday drive.
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Cost of a ticket to attend the first Super Bowl at the LA Coliseum. It was 1967 and Lombardi’s Packers took down Hank Stram’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Today six bucks won’t get Tony Romo a weekend’s worth of condoms for Cabo. |
What are you going to wear in the game Sunday?
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Jeopardy Champion “Downtown” Julie Brown talking with Emmitt Smith prior to the 1993 Super Bowl between the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills.
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The 1992 halftime show of the Super Bowl featured Olympic champions Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill skating on sheets of Teflon atop large platforms on the field. The show was titled “Winter Magic” and caused half of the live viewers to immediately question their own sexuality.
Big Gig = Big Sales
| Prince’s music catalog more than doubled in sales the week following his set |
| Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers “Greatest Hits” album jumped 196% |
| Paul McCartney’s 2002 live album posted a 542% increase in sales |
| Janet Jackson & Justin Timberlake’s duet increased nipple jewelry sales by 72% |
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Whether it’s the ten hour pre-game show, the quadrilateral displays at the grocery store, or the $1,000 squares pool at work, there is nothing quite like the Super Bowl. Name another time of year, when a grown man will shush an entire room so he can watch a multi-million dollar herpes pill commercial starring two talking hamsters? |
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