While driving over to this years Super Bowl Bash at my brothers’, I couldn’t stop thinking about the time I went to “Super Bowl X (Pittsburgh and Dallas)”. Okay stop snickering YES it was awhile ago.
Here have a laugh….. these were the Number ONE Songs for January
| January 3 | “Saturday Night“ | Bay City Rollers |
| January 10 | “Convoy“ | C.W. McCall |
| January 17 | “I Write the Songs“ | Barry Manilow |
| January 24 | “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” | Diana Ross |
| January 31 | “Love Rollercoaster“ |
Yes sorry my obligatory segue….. the “Bay City Rollers” just makes me laugh thinking about the Mike Myers movie
“So I Married a Axe Murderer”
and his whole Scottish family dancing to them.
Talk about “Bubblegum” Music
I’m sure by now you are thinking “What the Hell does this have to do with the Super Bowl….don’t know but this is what was happening then and that movie is stupid funny as hell..
Okay now to the actual story. My friend Howie who I worked with at that infamous restaurant that I bring up every so often was born in the Pittsburgh area, a diehard fan bordering on Fanaticism…. one night after work while banging down drinks we talk about the Super Bowl….. and somehow we start throwing around the notion of going to it….. I think we brought it up almost daily…..finally we came to the conclusion we’re going….. Now this is the week leading up to the Super Bowl ..NO Tickets..NO Hotel…..AND NO Airfare….Minor snags…we’ll figure this out…Cause watch out Miami here we come.
This is where some of the details are a little foggy. Oops forgot to mention that Howie’s girlfriend at the time Dawn was coming also….okay back to the foggy part…. I think we headed to JFK (airport) on the Thursday night. I think friends Ken and Ricky drove us down….of course we were already primed with drinks…….“Ken pull over we need to take a Pit Stop…..thank god it was dark on “95″… so we pull over and Howie and I start pissing…..thank god for our plumbing in emergencies like this……never mind….. all of a sudden Dawn is right next to us…..squating and pissing also…what the Hell she had to go too….so we just kept doing what we had to do
….We get to the airport….. buy our tickets and I think we brought the clothes on our backs and don’t think anything else……we drank all the way down to Miami…..one good thing did not have to worry waiting for luggage….. HMMMM no place to stay…. we took turns at the payphone looking for hotels in Miami…..no luck until sometime Friday morning….at least we saved money for a hotel the first night…spent in on the benches in the airport……A little history back in the 70′s and 80′s Miami was not like it is today……trying to be politically correct
”Not a nice place to go”
We get our hotel somewhere in North Beach and actually on the water….. now not remembering did I bring any clothes or not…. if not then I did some shopping….I was going swimming no matter what….it was around 68 to 70…or so…… warm for us “Snowbirds” not for the natives who were kinda wearing sweaters and coats…. I will find about that later in my life when I did live in FT. Lauderdale….. did my dip ..aaaaah satisfied…. now I think waiting for the Super Bowl what should do….HMMMM I think I drank a lot and because the next thing I knew it was time for the Super Bowl
We took our rental and started driving to the “Orange Bowl”….. in downtown Miami….it is starting to get congested the closer we get we notice everybody is hiring out their front lawns as parking and the nearer the more expensive….. you gota love capitalism at it’s finest.
We paid our extortion rate because we were not going to walk too far from the Orange Bowl….. Now the most important part scalp 3 tickets together. It’s funny you feel a little weird walking around and asking for tickets to buy…… well not sure which one of us scored but we bought 3 together at face value $75.00 apiece. We sat I think around the 40 yard line on the second level. The second level are stands not seats like the lower so there are hash marks with the seat number inside them. Well settled in and watched a very exciting game… it was back and forth and since Howie was a diehard Steelers Fan I rooted for them also….plus being a Giant fan could not root for the Cowboys.
Final Score Pittsburgh 21 – Dallas 17…thank god because Howie would have been not fun to be with and it would have been anticlimactic Yahooing it up and not have our team win.
It’s funny when I write these things it always triggers more of the same but different stories
In Chronological order
Went in October to the 6 and 7th games of the Greatest World Series, this Super Bowl, The Bicentennial 4th in a Boise Police station and the Summer Olympics in Montreal…which was a blast..and you will hear from me about that…….
Have Nice Day
ken1981
Well I think I am in my mind…I really do not think enough people read my blog…. I try to be entertaining and…what not…… I hope this is for reading my Super Bowl adventure….because I seem to be getting al ot of comments that I do not think pertain to my blog
Never mind my comments..I just read your story and I am still laughing my ass off! FYI..we met my friends brother in th parking lot the day befor the game. That is when he went up on the price!!! And yes, we did pay $75 a piece, that scam artist! The name of the hotel on the beach (Collins Avenue) was called the Tangiers. The first night we stayed at some seedy walk up in the “Red Light District”. I called my father and he told us to get the hell out of there first thin in the am…LOL!!!