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No joint rolling allowed at Super Bowl!
I laugh every time Deb asks me, “So, who’s going to be in the Super Bowl this year?” It just never gets old. I mean, I wish I did know. I would be a very, very rich man around mid-February. The point is that no one will know the answer to that question for weeks, although I’d hazard a guess that betting odds are leaning towards a Dallas Cowboys-New England Patriots match-up. Although the Pittsburgh Steelers could still spoil the Patriots diabolical march toward immortality, and there are lots of us that would love to see Brett Farve and the Green Bay Packers snatch the NFC crown from the Cowboys. OK, enough insider football-speak. Here’s what we do know about this year’s Super Bowl:
1. It’s happening in Phoenix, Arizona. What happens in Arizona? You’re asking the wrong dude. Wikipedia tells me that it’s where both “Raising Arizona” and “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” were filmed, so it must be at least OK. Plus NBA star Steve Nash (pictured above) lives there, and he’s a bad-ass.
2. The musical guest during the halftime show is going to be the almighty Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. This is good news on a few levels. First, Tom Petty is awesome. Second, he recently promised a writer at Rolling Stone magazine that they wouldn’t play any medleys. “It’s not the kind of band that can remember a medley,” he admitted.
3. Which brings us to the NFL making Petty pinky-swear that the Heartbreakers wouldn’t play the song “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” since they aren’t too keen on the line “Let’s roll another joint” being broadcast around the globe on a Sunday afternoon. Rolling joints, not being able to remember medleys—It’s all starting to make sense!
4. Now for something completely unrelated: Did you know that Ronnie James Dio is going to be signing autographs at the Grove on Monday night? Please inform your neighborhood metal-head and stand back.
—Scott T. Sterling
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