Mexmustang wrote:Had drinks last night with two Cowboy execs. They were furious with the NFL. They asked the basic question, "how can we (Cowboy personnel) accommodate and handle 80-90 thousand every weekend and not be competant to handle the visitors for the Super Bowl?" The NFL took over the entire process and left their people out, the security people were largely unpaid volunteers, not the normal professionals, even Jerry and his VIP's had to wait 45 minutes to get into the stadium as all the club and suites entrances were closed and everyone had to got through general admission entrances. The security perimeter around the stadium was so wide--distant from the stadium, that people attempting to get into the stadium, sometimes had to walk almost a mile just to get in the proper entrance. Half of the people were standing in mud for over an hour just trying to get in. Obviously, they don't feel responsible, simply embarased and feel the NFL and its organization should be held acccountable. The NFL people are still in the stadium attempting to restore it to "original condition". What they discribed was a nightmare of damages caused by ignoring the agreements by the NFL people. Never been a big Cowboy fan, but I do know these people and believe what they are saying.
Interesting stuff as JJ is taking the heat for all of this...maybe somewhat needlessly at that.
Regarding the Aguillara performance of the National Anthem my wife commented that if the NFL would choose a person in uniform who performs with a military band of any branch of the armed forces - no matter if their heritage were Asian, black, Hispanic or white - that would almost guarantee a performance that we could recognize as what we learned.
No Quarter wrote:Regarding the Aguillara performance of the National Anthem my wife commented that if the NFL would choose a person in uniform who performs with a military band of any branch of the armed forces - no matter if their heritage were Asian, black, Hispanic or white - that would almost guarantee a performance that we could recognize as what we learned.
How about an armed forces band playing and 95,000 people singing the national anthem? It's the national anthem, not american freakin' idol.
mrydel wrote:The hair on my arms is still standing from Willie K's rendition.
Absolute best national anthem at a sports event I've ever heard.
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
