Rachel Stuhlmann Checks In From The Super Bowl, Holyfield-Tyson Get Together & Macho Man Was A Visionary
Super Bowl Week update: There's been an NFL arrest & I'm starting to think Joe Buck reads Screencaps
Thank you to all those who tagged me and sent me Joe Buck's comments on not attending the Super Bowl week festivities. That's the looking out for Screencaps behavior I like to see out of the readership.
"I do not have any desire to be there," Buck said Monday on St. Louis radio.
"I’m not that way. I’m not looking for the Maxim party and going out all night. It’s just not my thing and then you combine that with Vegas.
"There’s going to be some story, there’s gonna be something that happens because it’s Vegas and it won’t stay in Vegas. It’s gonna be a big something that happens. I don’t know what it is. I have no idea. I just think that is going to be a mess in my mind."
I couldn't agree more about avoiding Vegas and the insanity that is surely going to break out over the next five days. Super Bowl weeks I've experienced were already crazy enough without the Vegas element.
There was the Maxim party in Indianapolis at the Indiana State Fairgrounds where I was working the red carpet with my boss and an Instagram model – IG really wasn't a thing back then. Security didn't want us in that party, but we wanted in, so the IG model came up with a plan where she'd tell security she needed to go to the restroom and we needed to go with her. So we went….right by security and into the party and never returned to the red carpet.
I left that party with so many freebies I couldn't carry take anything else out of the Fairgrounds. It was a bonanza.
I've spent an entire week in New Orleans –- way too much, never do it for a Super Bowl week –- in a house with a bunch of people, including an Instagram model who served as our red carpet talent, and Jeremy Shockey who was in the middle of a huge feud with Warren Sapp. Looking back, I should've known at that moment that someday I'd be in my own feud with Sapp.
Shockey berated me one night at the kitchen table for not blogging his comments about Sapp. It was a wild time in my life. It felt like I was living in a movie. I found myself in moments that my pre-Internet self wouldn't have ever believed.
I spent a week in Minneapolis on Radio Row having paid the NFL ZERO for Internet service or for table rental. We pulled off multiple hours of shows from an illegal operation right there in the heart of the Mall of America.
I think after all was said and done, each of us made around $1,000 after expenses on that trip because we slummed it at a drug den hotel across the highway from the Mall of America. The hotel has been demolished. According to Google Earth, it's an empty lot these days.
Do you know how rare it is for a media outlet to turn a profit while running a Super Bowl Radio Row operation? It's damn near impossible. It remains one of my proudest memories.
I'll never forget the Leather and Laces Minneapolis Super Bowl party and being loaded to the point where sneaking past stage security to rage on stage with Gronk and his gang seemed like a great plan.
It worked and it was so worth it.
There was the Red Hot Chili Peppers warehouse show in San Francisco where Snoop Dogg was the intermission entertainment while standing high atop some warehouse platform. I have a photo with Mark Cuban from that night around here somewhere.
There was the Playboy party in San Francisco where it took a half-hour to get a beer at the center bar sausage-fest. You guys aren't missing much from the Playboy parties. Leather and Laces historically has kicked Playboy's ass. I remember Justin Bieber riding into the intimate New York Leather and Laces party on a skateboard, and then I walked into the actual party where Paris Hilton was DJing while oddities like Kyle Busch and his wife partying with Jamal Anderson and Joey Fatone played out in a booth.
By the way, during their time, nobody partied harder at Super Bowl parties than Kyle and Samantha. Legendary Super Bowl party attendees. Hate the guy all you want, but he parties/partied.
Then there was Miami with my father who was finally able to experience Super Bowl week in 2020 at parties with all sorts of famous 49ers. He was in heaven. I met Ric Flair for the first time in my life one of of those nights.
Guys, I don't know if I'm done with blowout Super Bowl weeks. If I am, I'm satisfied. I got it out of my system in a big way.
Now it's time for others to go do their thing.
Speaking of the Super Bowl in Vegas, this is worth your time
From the Wall Street Journal: How much would it cost in Vegas to say ‘yes’ to all the upgrades?
What a genius move by the reporter coming up with this idea and then, I assume, throwing it on an expense report. Absolutely genius.
She even bought the $35 VIP line pass at a $62 all-you-can eat snow crab legs buffet. GENIUS!
RIP Toby Keith
• From Beau in Toledo:
Rest In Peace, Brother Toby
Know that You will Always be Known as That Guy That Stood FOR **THE** United States of America.
"Justice will be served and the battle will rage
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way"
Our Great CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC needs more Men ( and REAL Women [HI RILEY!!] ) like Toby Keith, as well as support from ScreenCaps Nation.
(P.S. Buy more ammo)
A report on Biden's wind farms off Cape Cod
• Susanne in Barnstable, MA writes :
I live on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and am Chair of a group opposing a plan to land future ocean wind farm cables in our community. I’m sure you’re thinking big deal, "join the club." Here’s the issue other than we don’t want them to dig up our village centers and streets: they are planning to place massive X-High Megawatt substations on top of wellhead protection zones.
This would endanger the Cape’s sole source aquifer (the only supply of drinking water here). The EPA refuses to review the proposals because the projects "Do not accept federal money." I can show you their emailed response to that effect. Here’s the punchline: the companies are receiving huge tax credits and have been excused from the law requiring surety in the form of escrow (hundreds of millions if the law were applied) in case of environmental damage or even catastrophe.
We have shown such a scenario is entirely possible. The Biden "renewable energy" program is in a headlong rush to industrialize the oceans with dangerous, nearly obsolete technology that won’t (according to BOEM) help slow climate change one bit. Thanks for reading this.
Kinsey:
Susanne, I will join your cause as long as you support my fight against the scumbag politicians who want to jail Americans for using gas-powered lawn mowers. From the sound of things, we're on the same page with this climate change scam.
Nolan Ryan and the East Palestine anniversary
• Bill H. writes:
Lent arrives on Ash Wednesday/Valentine's Day this year. Forty days of fasting, praying and charity in preparation of Easter. We are encouraged to give up a pleasure or distracting habit in our lives to recenter our focus on the hereafter and glorifying God. With that, how many will give up SC for this time frame only to reemerge in time for TNML? BOOM! Kinsey fills his pants.
My son's boyhood favorite pitcher was Nolan Ryan. I call the TX Rangers to see when Nolan would be pitching. He would be hurling against the Yankees during our early summer vacation 6/6/94, weather permitting. Great!! It would be our family's first MLB game!
So, we roll down from LR to DFW, spend big bucks on 7-rows-up-from-first-base seats, stadium food, hats, souvenirs, parking, etc... $120 gone like that. Snap!
Nolan warms up right in front of us! The speed and sound of that ball flying was like watching a Thunderbird airshow. The ball seemed to almost break the sound barrier. A football is being tossed around by the other Ranger team members during warmups.
Well, heavy weather circled around the stadium with Cecil B Demills-like, end of the world, green/grey, hail/tornadic-looking boiling clouds.
The game starts, Ryan throws 7 pitches, pulls a hamstring and is out for the game. Blink, and the dream is over. As the 3rd rain delay begins with the Rangers behind, we bail, go back to the Ramada, dry out, and watch the rest of it on TV as the Yankees finish whipping the Rangers 17-7.
Tom Thumb grocery stores advertised half price outfield seats on the radio. What the hell, we're in Big D, so we pick up tickets the next day. That evening, the family unit sits in the left field stands behind Don Mattingly as we munch on a shared bucket of popcorn and extra-large soft drink. The sky is clear, starlit and cool. Gorgeous! The Rangers win 2-1 and, as we leave, I find a 20 laying on the ground near our car paying for our parking. Righteous refund!
Here is a gut-wrenching interview from, right in your backyard:
https://rumble.com/v4b4y9r-it-will-never-be-the-same-east-palestine-breaks-down-recounting-towns-trage.html
"It Will Never Be The Same": East Palestine Resident Breaks Down Recounting Town’s Tragedy
Like we are being told, things are going GREAT!
Kinsey:
Disclaimer: East Palestine is closer to Pittsburgh than where I live. It's three hours over to that part of Ohio.
America's love affair with credit card debt
• Resident economist Jared P. in Ohio writes:
You have posted several articles/tweets over the past 12 months regarding the increase in credit card balances and delinquencies. If you didn't see this, here is another one. I thought you and/or the Screencaps community may find it interesting.
When I read the article, it made me angry because the author did not connect the dots as to the primary reason credit card balances have increased. The author writes "Until recently, most Americans benefited from a few government-supplied safety nets, including the large injection of stimulus money during the pandemic, which left many households sitting on a stockpile of cash that enabled cardholders to keep their credit card balances in check."
The author also highlights how higher prices and higher interest rates are partially to blame. However, the author does not put two and two together. The higher prices were caused by the massive stimulus! Absent the stimulus (which the author praises), you don't have an increase in prices.
If you don't have an increase in prices, you don't see the central bank raising interest rates. If you don't have higher prices and interest rates, you don't see credit card balances ballooning by as much. While people are responsible for their own spending decisions, the government has made it more difficult for people with credit card debt, not less.
Florida transplant complains about influx of retirees
• Chris B. in Florida writes:
Sure, I get it — if you live up north, it’s a sign that spring is coming. I used to love hearing "pitchers and catchers report" when I lived in the frozen tundra.
But for us in Fort Myers, it just means the Massholes are coming. They’ll be strutting around in their "They hate us cuz they ain’t us" t-shirts that are years out of date (yet still accurate in that we do hate them, regardless of the specifics), and traffic will be backed up because they use the right lane to wait for beige hot water at Dunkin’ Donuts.
Meanwhile, the Yankees fans will be peeling out in their Camaros and Monte Carlos and complaining about the pizza and still wearing their shirts bragging about how many rings they got in the last century.
At least the Twins fans are pretty friendly when they show up in their shorts and t-shirts even though it’s only 57 as I write this.
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That's it this morning. The sun is out again. I have no reason to go to Florida right now because it's going to be near 50 the rest of the week.
Am I going to the golf course today due to the great weather? No. It's Super Bowl week. I'm hunkered down and ready for action.
Let's go get after it.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com