Posted on 03/20/2006 8:03:26 AM PST by SmithL
DeBartolo has invited a few hundred of his closest friends -- and just about anybody who had anything to do with the five Super Bowl championship glory days -- to a three-day, three-night party this week at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.
It is billed in the invite as "the most exclusive event in the history of professional football.''
Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Bill Walsh and George Seifert have all RSVP'd -- as have ex-team president "Charmin' " Carmen Policy and former San Francisco mayors Dianne Feinstein, Frank Jordan and Willie Brown, who will help emcee. (Mayor Gavin Newsom was also invited, but he can't make it.)
Ex-Niners assistant coaches Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Mike Holmgren, Denny Green and Gary Kubiak -- all now NFL head coaches elsewhere -- got invitations, though the league's annual meeting in Phoenix this week apparently will keep most of them away. But there will be lots of former office staffers and even one-time equipment guys.
"We're probably up to 600 acceptances, though frankly I thought there would be more," DeBartolo told us.
The party kicks off Thursday with a cocktail reception featuring singer Jeffrey Osborne.
On Friday, there's a golf tournament, a poker tournament and "a slot tournament for the ladies,'' says Eddie.
Plus enough free time in between to hit the spa and do some shopping.
It all winds up Saturday night with a black-tie-optional gala in the hotel's ballroom, with Huey Lewis performing.
DeBartolo says he's been talking about a Super Bowl reunion for four or five years.
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They were an amazing franchise and the Walsh lineage is the strongest bloodline ever seen in the game of football. If it wasn't for the salary cap they would have won another Super Bowl or two.
Paris: The Logical Meeting Place for Reliving Long-Past Glories.
Nope. Too easy.
3 out of 4 replies on this thread are from you. I'm ALMOST ready to put you on my payroll.
; )
Throw in health coverage and you've got a deal.
Are they paying Montana a 100 Gs to show up? And Steve Young better watch out--I imagine Vegas is a tough place to be a Mormon.
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