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A major once a year party day. Super Bowl Sunday! America goes crazy. Properly so.
This year the event is in New Orleans. The game has been played there many times over the years. I have seen three or four at least in New Orleans.
Actually my Super Bowl experiences have been many. Eleven consecutive games. Yes, eleven.
Back in the 1980s, I was Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the Syracuse University School of Law. Made me a person of influence in many respects. My recommendation to an applicant guaranteed acceptance.
A Utica client was an insurance man who provided coverage for his significant clients. One was the Buffalo Bills. A major customer for him obviously. He visited with me and told me of the younger brother of the Vice-President of Marketing for the Buffalo Bills. The young man had some adverse situations in his resume and had been rejected by every law school he had applied. Could I help? Of course. However note that my assistance at the moment was to my Utica client. I sought to benefit him in the eyes of the Buffalo V-P.
I broke my house rule of always meeting anyone I recommended for admission. Merely did the necessary. Made one phone call and he was accepted.
Again, never met or spoke in any fashion with the applicant. Nor did I speak with his brother the Buffalo Bills V-P.
The V-P never forgot me, however. Since that year and continuing to today, he mails two free Super Bowl tickets to me. Actually now to my son as I am long retired.
I took advantage of the tickets and what went with them for 11 consecutive years. Attended 11 Super Bowls. Seats excellent. Generally 45-50 yard line, 20 rows up.
Super Bowl parties the best. Arrangements always made for me and my guests nightly before the game. And the party of parties, the evening after the game itself. What a party! The best of the best!
One of my daughters went to work with the Buffalo Bills working in Marketing with the V-P after she graduated from college. Worked with him a number of years till she married and moved to another city.
A deed well rewarded. Though not expected in any fashion.
The brother graduated from Syracuse law with no problem and has had a distinguished career practicing his profession.
Fred Klein is having a bowl party today. He invited me. I had to say no. My back has been killing me since tuesday. Thursday night the worst. Ok so far this morning. Do not want to take advantage of the condition nor abuse it. I will be watching the game from my bed.
Never made it to Brady’s Irish Pub for the Syracuse/Boston College game yesterday. My back. Kept me home. Better safe than sorry.
A hell of a game! Syracuse beat Boston College 95-86 in triple overtime. Wow!
Second time Syracuse beat BC this season.
Syracuse’s record still bad. No way it will make the Big Tournament at the end of the season.
Syracuse attendance was high at 20,881. Syracuse has always drawn huge numbers in basketball. This season, as badly as Syracuse is playing, it ranks third nationally in attendance with a total of 259,885.
A warning from an old fan who has been around Syracuse sports since 1957. Attendance will always initially be high. However to maintain it at a high level, it is necessary for the team to win. Win constantly. If it fails to do do, the number drops radically.
Two brief political observations.
Where is the authority coming from for Trump and Musk to do what they are doing? Trump’s Orders in this regard are as good as an old Sears Roebuck catalogue when toilet paper not available. The courts are already beginning to put the blocks to most of them.
Not only where is the authority to act, who and how are the 19 plus year olds working for Musk being paid? Need House authority. None yet provided. Authority required to simply walk into 15 different agencies and look at and even take records. Speaking of records, security designations required to look at much of the material being viewed and/or removed. Where is the authority for such?
A miss observation exists with regard to Social Security. Federal auditors have discovered identity fraud in certain Social Security records. The error is reflected in a representation that 6.5 million persons 112 years or older are on Social Security. No way! Absolutely not! Common sense alone tells us the number has to be an error. There are not 6.5 million persons 112 years or older alive in the U.S. I doubt there are even that number word wide.
The error gross. Actually only 35 persons believed to be 112 or more years old are alive today. Of that number, I am not sure the actual number receiving Social Security.
A number of persons have picked up on the 6.5 million figure and have been touting it as real.
Enjoy Super Bowl Day!