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Football Casting (MARCH) GK: We want to welcome the director of the Super Bowl, Mr. Bud
Forensic, director of Super Bowl XXXVIXCV --- how do you feel about the
game tomorrow? TR: It's gonna be great. We've got three thousand men in the end
zone ready to take off their shirts and boogie in the aisles and show
off their love handles and some of that great male cleavage, so we're
ready! GK: Bud is the veteran director of many bowl games including the
Cereal Bowl, the Dog Bowl, the Toilet Bowl, the Bowling Bowl ---- and
now the big one---- TR: That's right. And the end zone fans have become a very important
part of our bowl game coverage. GK: You do focus on those people more, don't you? TR: Yes, we do, because they're drunk and crazy and fun to see
for the folks at home. Guys with letters painted on their chests and so
forth---- waving plungers, you name it----- GK: The folks at the 50-yard-line----- TR: Kind of a corporate crowd at midfield, and of course with
the Super Bowl the length it is now---- GK: It's what? About three hours? TR: Actually it's eleven hours but we try to make it feel like
three. GK: Oh. I see. TR: Not many people willing to sit on a hard seat for that long
and watch a football game that gets interrupted for a commercial every
four plays or so. GK: So the people at midfield---- TR: Actually most of those are cardboard cutouts. GK: I see. TR: But the folks in the end zone, the ones dancing and throwing
toilet paper with their faces painted to look like their rear ends, those
people are real. GK: I guess so. Good luck. © Garrison Keillor 2003 |
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Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
