Media Day and The Zipline

Today was a special day in Super Bowl history. The first time they opened up Media Day to the public. And why not? It was held in the stadium with plenty of seating. I think players got a kick out of it, too... at least once they realized the public could hear them.

It's a pretty cool set-up they have - not sure if it's a normal set-up or a new one for the new public attendance. They had nine key players and the head coach set up at individual podiums for an hour (for each team), and the rest of the players rotated to other media set up along the sideline. We were all given radios so we could tune into one of six mic'd up players/coaches. Of course there was a lot of focus on both quarterbacks. In fact, it was obvious a majority of people were listening to Tom Brady when he started gushing with respect for Peyton Manning and the crowd cheered. It was at this point he realized the public could hear his interview. Apparently, they failed to tell the players some of them could be heard by the audience over radios. All in all, it was a neat experience.

Eric and I have walked the village a few times now, and though there are a lot of cool things to check out there, you can only go so many times before you've seen it all. But there was one thing we hadn't seen/done yet... the zipline! Some friends of our had extra tickets for tonight and offered them up to us. That was one ticket that Eric and I decided NOT to buy in advance, but then by we decided it might actually be cool, all the advanced tickets were sold out! So we were pretty excited when we got the invite tonight.

So the experience? It was awesome!! It wasn't 22 lines across a river, down a mountain, but it was a unique experience on its own! The line ran over the length of a city block, right over everyone's heads strolling around in the village. There were four parallel lines, so we all got to go at the same time and kind of race. As we got towards the main crowd, they all cheered and hoot'n'hollered as we zipped by. I must say, it was quite a rush! Definitely pumped us up for the rest of the night. Too bad it's only Tuesday and not on the weekend when we could use that adrenaline rush!! ha ha

So you can obviously tell this week is awesome! I really wasn't sure what to expect when it was announced it was coming. Now that it's here, I really hope we get another one!