Posted on 02/04/2005 4:19:38 AM PST by beyond the sea
Yesterday the league scheduled a news conference to announce the most complex halftime show ever attempted ,then, in a moment so genuine it barely belonged to this week or any other in the Super Bowl's manic history, someone introduced Paul McCartney.
Bounding on stage in a faded red sweatshirt and jeans, Sir Paul offered a respectful salute and took questions. A thousand crabby, jaded journalists looked transported.
"Questions for Paul?"
What? Questions for Paul McCartney?
"Paul, what band will you be performing with?"
"My band."
"No, what band?"
"I have a band; it's called 'my band.' "
McCartney allowed a certain conceit that he's probably here as the anti-Janet, promised to keep the show mammary free, and acknowledged, "I don't have a wardrobe to malfunction, so no worries on that score."
A young woman asked, since he was wearing red and blue, was he a Patriots fan.
"This is just slung on, honey."
With the same breezy manner that was just as infectious yesterday as it was in 1964, McCartney figured that even though we're here hyping this thing eight days a week, he might be here to put a global audience totaling close to 1 billion back in touch with something grandly simple.
"The message of my music is generally peace, love and come together," he said, "and that's as good a message as I can deliver. It's the same old one, but I can't think of anything better."
This is probably just me, but shouldn't there be a Paul McCartney news conference before every game? Not just every Super Bowl, every single game. That'd make next year's Pitt-Youngstown State fray a little more palatable, wouldn't it?
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Paul is a good guy..... he'll do a good job!
Thanks for the tip. What are the odds on that???
;-)
There was a secretary at one of my old jobs who picked NCAA playoff teams based on how fierce their team name was. Seemed to work pretty well for her, amusingly enough.
Fine about close at halftime.
I have two grand down on the Pats and giving 7. I don't care when they beat this Philly team, just so it's by more than 7.
:-)
Bill Russell --- GOD!
I look for Philly being forced to abandon the run in the second half and McNabb throwing some interceptions. The Pats will convert them into some easy points to put the game away.
She sang at halftime of the Raiders-Bucs Super Bowl two years ago.
He has more championship rings than fingers!
What is that? Some kind of Asian stipper? Does she have one of those swings?
I think it was the whole Butter Pie thing.
I'll say more about him some day here at FR. He is THE man of athletics!!!!!
The one and only.
A TEAM PLAYER!
It's an asian stripper with one of those swings.
LOL! I am glad you have a sense of humor.
always ;-)
The article is called, "The Ring Leader".
Find it!
*****
"The greatest team player of all time, Bill Russell was the hub of a Celtics dynasty that ruled its sport as no other team ever has. Thirty years after his first story about Russell, the dean of SI writers revisited the big man.
This guy, Bill Russell, back in the '50's taught me evrything I needed to know about winning............ and about life.
Ah, so paul is also a fan of Simultaneous Orgasms? Cool. Maybe I should start listening to his music...
Just looked at Shania again here at 2:00 in the morning. That is one beautiful picture. Not only is she exquisite, but the photographer did a great job too.
I've suffered through listening to all those you've mentioned and they give me the sh_ts. Almost without exception there has been no really good, creative, original C&W music to come out of the industry in the last couple of decades. I keep listening to the new stuff, looking for something worthwhile, and am disappointed more times than not.
There used to be a higher percentage of performers who demonstratedly wrote their own material, unlike today. They were the creative ones because it was their product; unlike a stable of writers who crank-out material for interchangeable performers.
Yes, Jackson has a song with good lyrics, but the presentation is horrible. The lyricist is to be commended; the performer is not.
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