What will make this Super Bowl any more memorable than any of the other 47 I've watched? Certainly nothing about the game, since for me there was no rooting interest, no betting interest, or even a box with low probability numbers held by myself or any other member of the family. No dog in the fight, as they say.
No, what will make this Super Bowl memorable will be what Michael Kosta said on the show 'Crowd Goes Wild' today.
Joe Namath has lead a charmed life. And by the looks of things, he looks robust enough to continue leading a charmed life. Win one Super Bowl in 1969--the franchise's only Super Bowl--eight days before Richard Nixon was sworn in for his first term--and people still know who you are. And to top it off, to keep the Giants/Jets connection going by virtue of being in their home MetLife stadium, the coin toss was attended to by two New York winning Super Bowl quarterbacks.
It fell to Joe to toss the coin. Maybe Joe won a sideline, untelevised coin toss to win this right over Phil Simms, but it was clear Joe was going to toss the coin. Joe was so eager to toss the coin, he jumped the gun. He flipped the ceremonial coin a nice end-over-end height, only to see it caught in mid-air by the official for a do-over. The Sea Hawks hadn't yet been instructed to call the toss.
The rest of the game is history. But what will not become part of history outside of this blog entry is what comedian/broadcaster Michael Kosta said about Joe's do-over.
It went something like this" "Leave it to a Jets quarterback to toss something up in the air only to have someone else catch it."
You gotta like this guy Kosta. And he's not even old enough to have seen Joe's interceptions, when they did affect the game.
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