SB pre-game historic mvp intros

[nascarnation]

man some of those guys looked really bad
is that the end result of steroids?
OTOH Lynn Swann looked ready to suit up (and run for governor )

btw the crowd looks like a Steelers home game, don't all those Microsoft millionaires support the Hawks?

Aretha will get no love from the PETA crowd wearing that fur coat

[Indyknut]

Quick, someone call Steven Tyler, I don't think he butchered the SSB as bad as these guys are!

[Truth Detector]

I doubt many of the glory boys took steroids.

More likely too much wine & wimmen.




BTW, the Dr Suess football reading was awesome.

[MichaelP]

Did I miss it or was Joe Montana absent?

[Ken-Paul]

Quick, someone call Steven Tyler, I don't think he butchered the SSB as bad as these guys are!

At least Steven Tyler knew that he was butchering The National Anthem.

[MD-IRLFAN]

Reports are coming in that Montana didn't like the $$ offered to him to appear. So he went home to watch the game. Class act.

Hate to say it. The SSB was bad. Real bad.

[Clefo]

Yeeeah, the anthem could have been better. When they first annoucned Dr. John with a piano, I thought that maybe they would have him play it on the piano, which would have been pretty neat, but then it kinda (understatement) went downhill from there >_>

[WestMcLarenF1]

Reports are coming in that Montana didn't like the $$ offered to him to appear. So he went home to watch the game. Class act.

Hate to say it. The SSB was bad. Real bad.

According to ESPN Radio this morning, he wanted $100,000 to appear....the league said NO.

[athos1172]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2321024

When the NFL unveiled its MVPs from the previous 39 Super Bowls, only three living members skipped the ceremony.

Former 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw decided to stay home, while former Dolphins MVP Jake Scott was traveling in Australia.

Montana, the league's only three-time Super Bowl MVP, turned down the invitation over money, Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Bradshaw, who told league officials that he wanted to be with his family, also took issue with the fees, the Chronicle reported. Bradshaw, through a representative, denied the Chronicle's report that there was a dispute over money.

Former MVPs were given $1,000 for incidental expenses while in Detroit, along with other amenities such as plane tickets, car rental and game tickets.

Sources told each paper that Montana asked for a guarantee of at least $100,000 in appearance money.

When the league balked at Montana's demands, the quarterback declined to be in attendance.

[comfortably numb]

What a tool.

[Frank Capua]

How does that make him a tool? Somebody wanted him to do something he said that wasn't enough they said that was all he was going to get so he said; "then you ain't getting me".

Joe is nobody's trained dancing monkey he's earned the right to not do something if he doesn't want to... Homie put away his little funny hat and jacket a long time ago... as well as the collar and leash.

$1000?? That's not even enough to get me to go to Detroit in Feburary! And for what... a super Bowl?? Few people know how bad those stink more than Joe.

[Truth Detector]

He has the right to say no and cn has the right to call him a tool for doing so.

Some things you do for the fans and/or out of respect for the game.

[comfortably numb]

I'm not saying he's one for not doing it for $1000...

...I'm saying he's one for demanding $100,000.

He belongs to a club for which he was well compensated and continues to be well compensated. Just sounds greedy.

[Frank Capua]

I'm not saying he's one for not doing it for $1000...

...I'm saying he's one for demanding $100,000.

He belongs to a club for which he was well compensated and continues to be well compensated. Just sounds greedy.

Maybe asking for $100,000 was his way of saying "No... and don't ask me again".

They offered $1,000 do you really think Joe was expecting them to come back with a hundred times that?? What happened was exactly what he was hoping they would do... they stopped asking him.

Joe's given more than enough to the fans when he was playing... you want to invite people who left the fans wanting or who didn't give enough... invite Jeff George next year.

[athos1172]

"Joe is nobody's trained dancing monkey he's earned the right to not do something if he doesn't want to... Homie put away his little funny hat and jacket a long time ago."

Indeed. The way he runs around in his old 49er uniform in the FedEx commercial is a lesson in quiet dignity.