Superbowl XL, 5th Feb 2006 (Monday 6 Feb - Aussy Time)

[Maverick]

Any FOH Brisbane Members (or ROB) planning anything for Superbowl? It just occured to me that it is fast approaching and I have been told by my wife that I can't drink beer in the morning unless there is someone else drinking with me.

It is Monday 6 Feb, I think kick off is around 8am, but not too sure. Not sure who is covering it on TV, I am sure Foxtel and SBS will be giving it a go.

It is the only time of the year that I am not guilty drinking beer at that time in the morning.

Ross...

[Ken Gargett]

tragically it is the first morning of judging at the sydney show. i have made tentative feelers to halliday, the chairman, who is a known sports fanatic but it seems that as a first time associate, it may be frowned on.

can not believe it. no doubt the first one i have missed in decades will be the first time in decades the skins get up (actually, i suspect there is much doubt on that).

last one i missed was, inevitably, the great thrashing of denver - 5 touchdown passes in the 2nd 1/4 i think - when i was stuck in the middle of the cameroons jungle. finally found a couple of us marines there to guard the embassy who gave me the score about two weeks late but i didn't believe until i got back.

[genevapics]

Did you live in the Washington, D.C. area at some point in time? I am curious as to how you became a 'Skins fan. Not that you had to live there to be a 'Skins fan, but you seem to have a passion for the 'Hogs. Just curious.

[guilow]

» the first one i have missed in decades will

» be the first time in decades the skins get up

Now THAT is a funny statement.

[Ken Gargett]

arrived day before bush snr elected and worked there for a year or so, in a law firm called shaw pittman potts and trowbridge. on m street from memory. was a great intro - i was picked up by friends from the airport (had never been to the states before) and taken straight to a bar in georgetown to watch the skins win one. if i remember, mike ditka had just had a heart attack and the papers were full of it. also, i think that there was outrage as someone had spat in the face of one of the skins. what goes around...

loved it (and sppt one of the best firms i ever worked for).

lived at vacation lane arlington. so was there for rypien's year. before that i was just a fan of the game. when i lived in london at a place called london house, one of my best mate's - doing the endless phd - also ran the bar. he was a fanatic broncos fan and the local tv was showing quite a bit of the game back in the mid/late 80s so i picked it up and still love it. so the skins broncos bowl, even tho i was stuck in the jungle, was before i was a skins fan, just a game fan.