Road to The Big Game

Is the strike over? Did the screenwriters go back to work? I only ask because I’m not sure if I saw a football game or a made-for-TV movie last night. Then again, if that was a movie it was completely unrealistic. For a football game, it was simply unbelievable.
What the New York Giants did in […]

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America’s democracy will be on full display on Super Tuesday, the quadrennial kick-off to the Presidential primaries’ where voters select the finalists for the Political Super Bowl later in November.  Two days earlier, on Super Sunday, the NFL will feature several promotions that call on this same nationwide unalienable rights to vote and influence change. […]

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It happens every year. No sooner has Championship Sunday ended when the “telly pundits” (as I once overheard a British couple in a bar once call sports commentators) begin spouting off on potential storylines leading up to the Big Game. It all seems so manufactured - so geared towards raising our expectations only to see […]

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I imagine it’s eerily quiet in Glendale right now.  The Phoenix suburb, known by the locals as the “Antique Capital of America” (note: USA today will only permit that Glendale Antique Capital of Arizona) has finished rolling out the bubble wrap in preparation for the parties, paparazzi, and press conferences that are embedded into a […]

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Only one show on television has all the plot lines of "Lost" yet delivers higher TV ratings than "American Idol".
The 2007-2008 New England Patriots…
…On a impossible quest for perfection
…The stakes get higher as contestants get eliminated 
…a soap opera involving cheating, betrayal, redemption 
Whatever tagline you put on the movie poster, it is hard to dispute that […]

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When the Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the 2007 NBA Finals to face the San Antonio Spurs, the cries were predictable. “The NBA’s worst nightmare,” said some. “ABC is the big loser here,” said others. Why? Cleveland had LeBron James, heir-apparent to Michael Jordan’s throne. The Spurs were a model NBA franchise with exceptional players. But […]

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Forget the commercials, the halftime show, or any of the collateral that comes along with producing an event that has commanded 60% of the country’s viewers for the past 40 years. What is it really about the Super Bowl and the NFL that has sustained such high popularity despite incredible cultural, political, media, and consumer […]

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It was called the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game.”  On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs of the rival American Football League. The contest was a condition of the agreement that would eventually result in the merger of these two leagues. While organizers […]

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