Friday, September 10, 2004
Dodging Bush
The president was in the area the other day. My wife's main goal that day was to get to class and home without encountering a three-hour traffic delay. Roads to and from the community college were light, she reported. I was thinking this was unlike the time his dad decided to attend the Super Bowl in Detroit. Have you heard that story?
Detroit was slammed by a blizzard and then some icy weather Super Bowl weekend. Bush I was invited to the game and the NFL people recommended he arrive very early or at the last minute. Instead, the then-VP came with all the other fans. Traffic was stopped and tons of fans were late to the game. Even the 49'ers were late, though not as late as Coach Walsh suggested when he quipped on the team bus that the good news is they were only behind 7-0, but the bad news is that the training staff had taken the field against Cincinnati.
I also read that a bus full of press was stuck in traffic and a bunch of guys braved zero-degree weather in suit coats. They had left their overcaots in the hotel rooms, not thinking they would need to trek most of a mile to get to the stadium on time.
I don't recall a vice president has attempted to attend a game since.
