Volume 3, No. 2. January 24, 2002
Bowled over
You really have
to question somebody who commits to being the star attraction at an amusement
park event but truly, deep down prefers to be somewhere else. And so, Tim Brown,
All-Pro National Football League receiver, was a no-show Thursday at Legoland
California’s Family Huddle Super Bowl party.
Brown and pop singer Jessica Simpson were the announced co-hosts for the pre-Super
Bowl shindig at the Carlsbad, California, theme park near San Diego, where the
NFL Championship Game is scheduled to be played Sunday. The party featuring
an 8-foot, 30,000 LEGO brick replica of the Lombardi Trophy awarded to the Super
Bowl winner, had a guest list that included several Hollywood stars and famous
football players past and present. But something came up at the last minute
that kept Brown from attending.
That something was the Super Bowl.
Brown plays for the Oakland Raiders who, by virtue of their defeat of the Tennessee
Titans last Sunday, advanced to the Super Bowl against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“We just figured he’s a little busy,” said Courtney Simmons,
Legoland’s manager of media relations and government affairs. “(Thursday)
is practice day (for the teams). We knew all along that if the Raiders made
it, he wouldn’t be able to come. That was understood from the beginning.”
You do have to wonder why Brown committed to the Legoland party in the first
place. Did he really think his team wouldn’t make it to the big game? Or,
perhaps, he’d truly rather be in Legoland.
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