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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Obviously, you are not familiar with Rush limbaugh betting method. He takes teh liberal position on the team mascot and picks the one that is most liberal. i.e., picking a noble animal (as the liberals would say) over picking a human (and patriots are a double-whammy. So according to Rush's method of picking winners he would pick the eagles because animals are superior life forms to humans.
I was a little disappointed that Lynyrd Skynyrd wasn't tapped for the half-time show. It would have been a display of "real Americana", and a true taste of Jacksonville.
Alas, Skynyrd was probably considered 'too regional' - not the image that proponents of the 'new' Jacksonville want to portray, politically incorrect, and not mainstream (read pop) enough for an international audience.
/jasper
/jasper
This is the first Super Bowl I can't get on my TV... no FOX stations here in my area.. must hurt advertisers demographics.. Like I couldnt get some of the play off games either..
It sucks...... the longer halftime.
But, on Sunday night I'm thinking the Eagles are going to need a forfeit at halftime!
yeh................... he is!!!
He is one GOOD MAN!!!
He never changed.... he is just a normal sweetheart!
Sorry, I have to say that. I love the guy!
I hope you're right but I see a relatively close game at the half with the Pats putting them away in the third quarter.
and do not be afraid
And please don't grieve when I am gone
Abide in what remains
'til the shadows end and we meet again
on the dawning of the day
For when shadows end,
we shall meet again
on the dawning of the day
******
Bless you for that.
"Sweet Pea"?
A**hole. ;-)
Now, you are alive to see the Patriots kill the Eagles. Quit complaining!
:-)
"politics"???......... meat!
:-)!
Don't think.........................!
I was wondering if you were her stylist.
:-)
Nah, you're too young (maybe).
It was a beautiful thing!!! No selfish crap with Bill Russell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill Russell is God.
I remember the tail end of Russell's career, or at least have seen enough hilight footage that I think I remember him (ESPN classic kind of screws with your memory). Great player.
That little girl (Shania) is a darling!!!!!
Thanks for the pic.
I've just seen highlights of his career. My grandfather and father speak the world of him.
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