SUPER BOWL - the game, not halftime

I must be getting old. Wait, by looking at the birthdate on my driver’s license I see that, apparently, I must be really close to that age. I get discounts on dinners at restaurants, plane tickets, movie theater tix, hotels. Yup, that 65 thing is really good in many ways – except when sitting on the floor and trying to get up without help!

Watching the Super Bowl this past weekend proved I am getting older more than ever. Especially halftime. I want to watch entertainers actually entertain. What I don’t want to watch is what I saw Sunday night. I choose not to go to strip clubs and I don’t want to watch one at halftime of the biggest game of the year.

The two alleged entertainers Sunday night are in the 40s and 50s. Not 19 and not taking dollar bills in their garter.

The cheapest tickets to the game were about $5,000, with the most expensive tickets at $30,000. (My first house was $17,750 – and that included a garage and a couple, private bathrooms!) A lot of people spent a lot of the savings just to attend the game. I would hope they expect a great game and actual entertainment.

My point is that there are certain things I want to see at a game. On the google machine is a list of the Top 10 halftime performances includes: Justin Timberlake – with the University of Minnesota Marching Band, Rolling Stones, Springsteen and the E Street Band, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Prince. Lady Gaga put these two performers Sunday night to shame. They should have watched her show and tried to emulate her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDmjrdywp5nyE&v=mjrdywp5nyE

The other thing about getting older is one becomes more sentimental.

I always liked Andy Reid. Probably because he was one of the Packers’ coaches. I remembered reading about his sons when he was coaching the Eagles. Son, Britt, pointed a gun at another driver following a dispute in 2007.

The same day his other son, Garrett, ran a red light and hit another car. In his car was heroin and syringes.

Both were sent to prison and the judge said, “This is a family in crisis”. I have two sons. I can’t imagine, as a father, this happening and watching my two sons going to jail at the same time.

Five years later Garrett died of a heroin overdose.

What I didn’t know is that Britt cleaned up his act over the years and is now one of the Kansas City coaches. Isn’t that cool?!?!!

There was Andy, Sunday night, celebrating what he worked so hard for over 30 years to accomplish. There was his son, Britt, with him. Of course, I had tears. What a great event for a man and a dad who has worked so hard over the years. How wonderful to share it with his son as they were coaching together.

Sunday night was a great event . . . that had nothing to do with halftime.