SUPER BOWL 43
AMERICA'S Unofficial national holiday nears: SUPER BOWL Sunday Live from Tampa's Raymond James Stadium; with emphasis on beer, chips, more beer, chips, and yes, more beer.
The 2009 NFL big bash might just as well be called the "Recession Bowl". Tickets to the Steelers--Cardinals showdown are still available at face value and perhaps below at kickoff time according the ticket vendors; NBC, which is televising the game, still has a few minutes of ad time available at around $3 million a minute, and the usual horde of fans, media and assorted corporate tents are noticeably smaller this year as the country is mired in the worst economic state in a quarter-century.
Hotel lobby's are barren, several party's have been canceled, and Tampa's nightclub scene is bereft of the thousands it assumed would descend on the west-coast of Florida for the main event.
Most notable, media-wise, this year has been the lack of stations on the NFL'S "radio-row"; both Arizona and Pittsburgh radio stations are represented here, but several stations in both team markets have cut back expenses, and only a handful of stations actually sent personnel to the game.
Nevertheless, NBC, Westwood One radio, and the Armed Forces network will command the usual pre-game build-up leading to the 3 PM EST broadcast time.
NBC'S Al Michaels, John Madden, and Andrea Kramer will broadcast the game. Weather in Tampa calls for temperatures in the high 50's at game time.
Get the beer on ice, America.
Rich Lieberman
The Rich Lieberman Report
1-31-'09 9:44 PST
The only problem with the article/blog is that Tampa is on Florida's west coast... not "east - central." Get a geography book before writing any more articles... and get your facts checked.
ReplyDeleteWest coast, it is..sorry, corrected
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