Super Bowl, The Day After
We left the stadium last night at 11:00pm. The good news is that things went very well. Hopefully those that enjoy football and watched it, enjoyed it, as well. And those that don't enjoy football, enjoyed the commercials, as well. My favorite was the Bud Lite, Rock-Paper-Scissors commercial.The bad news is that we were back here for 3am. Got back to the hotel at midnight, set three alarm clocks, woke up about and hour and a half later. Today is going to be a long day. We're doing the Early Morning show, again. And then we get to take all the cables we strung between the trucks, and pack them up.
My father and I will doing our final thoughts sometime in the next couple of days. The one thing I did want to show you, because I promised I would, is the Super-Secret tactical training the Police did, a couple of days ago.
As some might be aware of, there is a camera called Cable Cam. It sits out over the players, and is rigged up by pulleys, so they can put a camera where no camera has been before, out on the middle of the field, 20 feet in the air, and look over the Quarterbacks shoulder. This gives the fan at home a realistic view of what the players are seeing. This is not new technology, but it's the coolest thing they've done in a while. To rig this camera up in the air, there are wires that string out over the field.
After 9/11, large national events have become prime suspects for terrorism, as a lot of people are in a small area. Fortunately, there's a lot of security around, checking bags and so forth. Well, Home Land Security and the local police force decided that to make sure they can control the crowd if it gets out of hand, or if someone tries to do something stupid they wanted the ability to fly two Black Hawk helicopters into the stadium, deploy fully armed and armored troops onto the field, while a third helicopter sits outside of the stadiums bowl and observe. There was much concern with the Cable Cam's wires getting caught in the rotor. Personally, if there is a terrorist attack, cut the blasted cables and run like heck! Unfortunately, the company that owns that equipment didn't like that suggestion, so they practiced pulling the cables to the field (so they were out of the way) and flying the helicopters in. They did this three times in the day time, and twice at night.
My father happened to be in the stadium when they practiced the first time, and he didn't have a camera. He called me and I came running. The coolest part of the whole ordeal was the propwash. At a certain point, when the helicopters got into the bowl a huge gust of wind almost knocked you over. It was great!
posted by DaveandBrian @ 5:26 AM
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