Farmers are important only to those who eat. This spot, narrated by one of the great salesmen of all time, makes me want to run out to Louisburg Garage Monday.
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Day: February 3, 2013
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And now, via Facebook and Twitter, the best comments on the third-quarter power outage in Super Bowl XLVII (the headline was my contribution):
New Orleans Power & Light just got back at Roger Goodell.
This is evident testimony of a lights-out performance by the Ravens tonight.
Just play, pretend you’re outside and clouds are covering the sun! Geez!
Looks like Ray Nagin ran off with the power bill money.
I wonder if they will blame Bush for the lights going out since Katrina hit New Orleans?
Don’t worry. The last time the power went out New Orleans they had back on in four weeks.
I’ll bet Al Gore had something to do with this!
I’d rather be watching the Go Daddy commercial over and over again than listening to these knuckleheads.
Guess the NFL shouldn’t have held the Super bowl in New Orleans the same year they suspended Saints’s coach Sean Payton.
Clark Griswold: Sorry just testing my 2013 Christmas lights display!
As the lights start to come back on, I can see about 20 cans of Deer Antler spray laying around the Ravens’ sideline.Oh Oh…. Lights out, lots of drunk people, limo’s parked outside…. SOMEBODY KEEP THEIR EYE ON LEWIS !!!
@OnionSports: Superdome lights return as all 53 49ers are lying motionless on ground. Whereabouts of Ray Lewis unknown
This wouldn’t have happened on Fox
if the lights are gonna be out and we have to watch nothing plus commercials, at least break the monotony with a 100 yard mascot dash or something… holy hell NFL
Just talked to my cousin the Sports Mechanic, (fixes games) Chinny, Cup o Vino and he said he had the power outage and points.
Somewhere Don Meredith is smiling!
Thinks its like Christmas lights? One goes out and the whole strand is shot!
Get Tulane stadium ready! Or Tiger Stadium [presumably LSU’s]
We’re down to mood lighting in here. Sexiest third quarter ever.
Gee Thanks Obama for shutting the Coal plant down in New Orleans…. How is that working out for New Orleans right now?
“Just kidding!” Why couldn’t the power fail about 20 minutes ago?
Alright…which Beyonce hater cut the power at the Super Dome? You’re a few minutes too late, buddy. 😉
Too bad it didn’t happen when Beyonce was singing.
Terrorist attack that was half successful? At least the press booth was knocked out.
Did they lose power in the booth, too? YAY!! #dreamscometrue
That’s what they get for having a Super Bowl without the Packers!
Next year’s super bowl will be outdoors in New Jersey. That could be a disaster
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Today in 1959, one night after their concert at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson got on a Beechcraft Bonanza in Mason City, Iowa, to fly to Fargo, N.D., for a concert in Moorhead, Minn.
The trio, along with Dion and the Belmonts, were part of the Winter Dance Party Tour, a 24-city tour over three weeks, with its ridiculously scheduled tour dates connected by bus.
Said bus, whose heater broke early in the tour, froze in below-zero temperatures two nights earlier between the scheduled concert in the Duluth, Minn., National Guard Armory, and the next scheduled location, the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay.
Holly’s drummer had to be hospitalized with frostbite in his feet, and Valens also became ill. The tour got to Green Bay, but its scheduled concert in Appleton that evening was canceled.
After the concert in Clear Lake, Holly decided to rent an airplane. Holly’s bass player, Waylon Jennings, gave his seat to the Big Bopper because he was sick, and Valens won a coin flip with Holly’s guitarist, Tommy Allsup. Dion DiMucci chose not to take a seat because the $36 cost equaled his parents’ monthly rent.
As he was leaving, Holly told Jennings, “I hope your ol’ bus freezes up,” to which Jennings replied, “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes!”
Shortly after the 12:55 a.m. takeoff, the plane crashed, instantly killing Holly, Valens, the Big Bopper and the pilot.
The scheduled concert that evening went on, with organizers recruiting a 15-year-old, Robert Velline, and his band the Shadows. Bobby Vee went on to have a good career.
Steve Prestegard.com: The Presteblog 