Archive for January, 2008

Note: Click on the ‘Super Bowl’ link to the left under ‘blog categories’ if you want to read all the blog entries on a wide page instead of down the side here…

Another early day. It’s like 12:30 and I need food – stat.

We had media madness once again, and once again I went in and took some pics. They’re all up on the flickah account for you to see, including one of me actually IN the photo. Amazing! There’s also a few of Jana looking very excited to be there. She doesn’t get out from behind the computer all that much, so she has a valid excuse.

We’ve also had some possible celebrity sightings this morning…allegedly Lindsay Lohan was spotted purchasing a coffee right outside our workspace, and Tony Romo’s ex is supposedly here as well….yay.

Today is also hotel moving day, so after lunch we get kicked out of our plush accomodations and into a Sleep Inn three miles down the street. Unfortunately there won’t be any actual sleeping in though.

And tonight is the big welcome party at Los Cedros. The owner of this establishment is of middle-eastern descent and loves arabian horses. He had them imported here, and built this giant establishment to house the horses and entertainment in…it was built in the middle east and moved here piece by piece. Check out the website, it looks pretty interesting.

Finally, it’s supposed to be like 33 degrees tonight and some of the party is outside…I thought we left this cold weather behind!?

The Pats held their daily press conferences bright and early this morning (well early here, anyway) and I went over and took some pics with Michelle, Chris and Jana. Michelle ended up being the designated tape recorder holder person for part of the morning, and we’re going to use some of the audio on Patriots.com…was pretty fun to walk around and see the whole team, and photograph it of course! They’re all up on my flickr page. Here, have a link to it.

We went to the Super Bowl media party last night, which was pretty cool. It had a whole western theme to it, with dancin cowgirls, cowboys showing people (Jana) how to rope a steed, and of course…tequila bowling!!! (rolling a lime down a piece of wood to knock over a bunch of plastic nip bottles lined up like bowling pins). THAT was an experience.

And last but not least…the Gin Blossoms were the evening’s entertainment…yes, the Gin Blossoms…guess they’re A) still a band, and B) from Arizona. Random.

Thanks for the comments everyone! Oh and Laura asked me to elaborate about the giant bug we saw scurry across the pavement last night…she also sent me some links to ‘beetles in Arizona” for reference, but sadly none of them really matched. In any case, this was some sort of large beetle-like bug that actually made clickety clackety noises as it scurried across the pavement and made its way into a bush. It was fast too.

So there, you now know about the large beastly insects that live out here!

Also, apparently Kelly Pickler from American Idol (the dumb chick that didn’t know Hungary was a country) was there as a correspondant for the Tonight Show…and a few of my co-workers were there reporting and got our team photographer to snap a pic of them with her…well kind of. Read Andy’s play-by-play in the Patriots Football Weekly blog, along with the pic.

PFW Super Bowl Blog >>

Didn’t get a chance to check in yesterday, so I’m attempting to write early before breakfast….yesterday was pretty good workwise, and we got to get outside and check out the hotel grounds a bit. This place is phenomenal. Check out the flickr pics at the bottom of the page and you’ll see what I mean. I am not a huge golfer, but man what I wouldn’t give to go hit a few balls on that course…wow.

Hung out last night for a few beers – outside – by the many open fires they had kickin’. Can’t do that back home this time of year, that’s for sure! More pics to come later.

My co-worker Michelle has taken some great pics and shot some videos too, which are now on Youtube…check out her blog:

www.popgraphics.net/placedate

And yeah, you’ll see me on the video…soomewhere.

Made it! Long flight, still waiting for my bag o’ clothes to arrive so I can finally change…but other than that we’re good!

Hit up Patriots.com all week, seriously….great stuff ahead. If you saw this evening’s press conferences, you know what I mean!

EDIT: Apparently my blog entires aren’t long enough for some people’s tastes ::cough::Jana::cough:: so uh, here’s another sentence or two.

Interesting stuff from the plane ride:

Rocky IV and Miracle in a two for one USA vs. Russia movie powerhouse block…followed by The Matrix reloaded. No idea. Oh and I ate a ton of food, and slept…and watched Flight of the Conchords on my PSP. So there you go.