Reasons to skip the Super Bowl
By Michelle Higgins, New York Times
While throngs of tailgaters chug Bud Light and devour Buffalo wings near the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and millions of other football fans gather in front of their TVs to watch the Super Bowl this year, in-the-know travelers will be sitting down to meals at some of the hardest-to-get-into restaurants in the country, skiing down empty slopes and zipping through Disney World without the usual lines.
If you’re willing to skip the game, set for Sunday, here are areas where you aren’t likely to run into much competition.
Restaurants
Opentable.com, the restaurant reservation site, typically seats half the number of reservations on Super Bowl Sunday that it does on the Sundays before or after. That’s a bigger drop than on Oscars night.
“Super Bowl is without a doubt the single least-busy night of the year,” Mario Batali, whose restaurants include Del Posto in New York and Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles, said in an e-mail. With few exceptions, he added, “you can get into any of my restos with probably less than a week’s notice.” (It helps that the Super Bowl is scheduled to begin at 6:30pm Eastern time, just in time for dinner.)
The way College football is going with 29 Big Money Bowl Games. Working on an arrangement to play for pay! What’s next?
The NFL with 32 teams,Big money playoffs adnauseam. Any True football fan can almost pick the winner, except for a fluke. As Commish Roger said Billionaire’s paying Millionaires. Taxpayers being hit for new stadiums. As the Spanos Billionaires would like from the City of San Diego. Pull up the SD Union Trib. Ticket price gallore.We have had Direct TV Sunday Ticket for 14 years.This year major games have been blacked out. The first being the Giants Green Bay. In the past we had been able to change to another channel and pick up those game’s. Congress want’s DEREGULATION (except NFL Football blackouts) on almost every thing that will benefit Corpeople but not People people.Direct TV has had trouble last year starting with Fox wanting more MONEY then the rest followed. Talk about political payoffs!!Google San Diego Mayor Susan Golding, WikipediA Charger Deal>Facts covered up! At the 1996 Republican Convention held in San Diego Mayor Susan on stage presented Charger Alex Spanos with a $150,000 check made out to the RNC.Inturn Mayor Susan guaranteed the Chargers a ticket Sellout NOT for one year but several. She did it without City Council approval, the council later approved her folly. At the time of the convention Susan was being considered for congress. Then party disowned her. The Charger ticket guarantee included Marines and Navy from Boot camps and their air force. We held tickets from 1968 thru 1988.Good coaches cheap owners. Gillman,Protho,Coryell,Ross,Riley,Shottenheimer, Turner.Out of 14 worth listing.