I can't believe I have never told this story on here, but here goes. My family owns a few restaurants in Delaware & Maryland. (I run the one in MD, jack i will e-mail you the website). Well Dick Vermeil is comes to our Italian restaurant in Delaware any chance he gets. Well my cousin waits on him when he comes into that restaurant all the time. As soon as St Louis beat Tampa acouple of years ago, he was on the phone with Dick's secretary for tix. Well obviously he was overwhelmed with tix for the game. But he mentioned that maybe he could get us into the afterparty. (Well who wants to go to an afterparty if that team loses..not me)
As the week leading up to the game progressed, we were pretty much not going, then one of our customers that comes in all the time, said that he did not have extra tix to the game, but he had an extra room at the Holiday Inn in Atlanta if we wanted it.
After a couple of days of deciding whether to go or not go, we decided, hey what the heck, we have a place to stay and we might even get into the Rams afterparty at the Superbowl. Back then the problem also was the weather here in Philly & the entire east coast was terrible, ice storm etc... So we took usair 8:30 am phila - to Atlanta the day of the super bowl, barely got out of philly. Ice storm shut down the airport after our flight.
We arrive at the holiday inn and meet the people that had the room. They were an older couple, but their two kids are the BIGGEST SCAM ARTISTS EVER..., they said that they sneak into everything, super bowls, sixers games, ncaa big games. They are a pair of college kids, one at St Joes & one at Ariz St. They said that they would have no problem getting all of us in, but that we were on our own when we got in. My traveling party was my father (55 yr old, has money and doesn't sneak into anything, me, and the two waiters from restaurant 25-35 age.)
Well, they explained to me that there are two options into sneaking in.
First, we can wait until right b/f kickoff and any tix that the players leave for family and friends that are not picked up at will call, are then sold at face value. (This method worked for the guys at the Super bowl w/ Atlanta & Denver. In fact they sat near Evander Holyfied & Cameron Diaz for that game)
Well this was not good for the Georgia Dome, will call made an announcement that there were no tix available. Off to plan B
Plan B was for us to go in through the kitchen area of the Dome. These guys were good, they walkie talkies etc... While waiting for the guys to come back, tix were going for $1600 a piece outside. After freezing my ass off by will-call and listening to my italian dad scream italian curse words at me for an hour on how cold it was, the two brother reappear. They said to follow them to the bottom of the dome. We reach the kitchen entrance at the bottom, this is after going throught parking garages etc.. We were supposed to pay the ARA workers $100 each as he let us into the area where they took out the trash. Well as they open the gates to take trash out, we walk in, hand the door guy $100 each and now we are in the kitchen. The $100 did not get us to the concourse level, we were stuck in the basement level.
If any of you have ever been to a super bowl, everybody walks around with their ticket stub around their neck. (well we didn't have any, but the plan was to act as if we belonged an nobody would ask any questions) Looking to make sure the coast is clear, I can see the halftime band practiceing, the referees for the game just came out of the lockeroom and were going onto the field. We could see the field (we were in the corner of the endzone) This had to be a big racket down there, because they let in a ton of guys that way, I turn to the guy next to me and ask him which way up to the concourse and he says he has no idea. (I said to him, "You have an EVENT STAFF" jacket on, don't you know where to go ? He says, "I JUST BOUGHT THE THING FOR $15 off some guy outside, he then proceeded to throw it in the garbage when he was in.
Well we finally make it up to the concourse level. Let me tell you, the place was mobbed with people, not a seat in house. We just kept on walking up & down the concourse following the action. Well we then split up, and decided to meet at the holiday inn after the game. I figured I had just paid $100 to get into the superbowl, let me bribe a ticket checker for a seat.
I go up to one of the younger ones, and say to him I need two seats as close as possible. He says for $150 for two. Well we got seats about 15 rows up from 3 yrd line where Dyson near the endzone where Dyson Stretches later inthe game.
After the game, we are off the tryto get into the afterparty. The hotel is 30 minutes away and when we get their it is harder to get in thier than into the superbowl. I noticed that you need to have a bracelet to get in to the party. Well we couldn't get a hold of Vermeil for obvious reasons...All of the sudden Vince Vaughn (actor) comes out of the party w/ 3 babes hotter than ever. He is going home. He gives us his bracelets.
When we get in, it is UNFKNBELIEVABLE !!!! WALL TO WALL BABES, ALL KINDS OF FOOD, OPEN BAR ETC.....
ITs now about 2am and I call my wife and I tell her the story and she hangs up on me. I ran out of film & I was at this party. I go up to the bartender, give him a $20 for a magic marker.
I go up to: Dick Vermeil, Ron Jaworski, Torry Holt, Roland Williams, London Fletcher & Ricky Proehl for autographs. (Marshall doesn't sign, Kevin Carter doesn't either & Kurt Warner was not even there, must have been praying or something )
We party until 5am. I have the autographed hat above my desk with all of their names. I AM A DIE-HARD eagles fan. GO EAGLES
As the week leading up to the game progressed, we were pretty much not going, then one of our customers that comes in all the time, said that he did not have extra tix to the game, but he had an extra room at the Holiday Inn in Atlanta if we wanted it.
After a couple of days of deciding whether to go or not go, we decided, hey what the heck, we have a place to stay and we might even get into the Rams afterparty at the Superbowl. Back then the problem also was the weather here in Philly & the entire east coast was terrible, ice storm etc... So we took usair 8:30 am phila - to Atlanta the day of the super bowl, barely got out of philly. Ice storm shut down the airport after our flight.
We arrive at the holiday inn and meet the people that had the room. They were an older couple, but their two kids are the BIGGEST SCAM ARTISTS EVER..., they said that they sneak into everything, super bowls, sixers games, ncaa big games. They are a pair of college kids, one at St Joes & one at Ariz St. They said that they would have no problem getting all of us in, but that we were on our own when we got in. My traveling party was my father (55 yr old, has money and doesn't sneak into anything, me, and the two waiters from restaurant 25-35 age.)
Well, they explained to me that there are two options into sneaking in.
First, we can wait until right b/f kickoff and any tix that the players leave for family and friends that are not picked up at will call, are then sold at face value. (This method worked for the guys at the Super bowl w/ Atlanta & Denver. In fact they sat near Evander Holyfied & Cameron Diaz for that game)
Well this was not good for the Georgia Dome, will call made an announcement that there were no tix available. Off to plan B
Plan B was for us to go in through the kitchen area of the Dome. These guys were good, they walkie talkies etc... While waiting for the guys to come back, tix were going for $1600 a piece outside. After freezing my ass off by will-call and listening to my italian dad scream italian curse words at me for an hour on how cold it was, the two brother reappear. They said to follow them to the bottom of the dome. We reach the kitchen entrance at the bottom, this is after going throught parking garages etc.. We were supposed to pay the ARA workers $100 each as he let us into the area where they took out the trash. Well as they open the gates to take trash out, we walk in, hand the door guy $100 each and now we are in the kitchen. The $100 did not get us to the concourse level, we were stuck in the basement level.
If any of you have ever been to a super bowl, everybody walks around with their ticket stub around their neck. (well we didn't have any, but the plan was to act as if we belonged an nobody would ask any questions) Looking to make sure the coast is clear, I can see the halftime band practiceing, the referees for the game just came out of the lockeroom and were going onto the field. We could see the field (we were in the corner of the endzone) This had to be a big racket down there, because they let in a ton of guys that way, I turn to the guy next to me and ask him which way up to the concourse and he says he has no idea. (I said to him, "You have an EVENT STAFF" jacket on, don't you know where to go ? He says, "I JUST BOUGHT THE THING FOR $15 off some guy outside, he then proceeded to throw it in the garbage when he was in.
Well we finally make it up to the concourse level. Let me tell you, the place was mobbed with people, not a seat in house. We just kept on walking up & down the concourse following the action. Well we then split up, and decided to meet at the holiday inn after the game. I figured I had just paid $100 to get into the superbowl, let me bribe a ticket checker for a seat.
I go up to one of the younger ones, and say to him I need two seats as close as possible. He says for $150 for two. Well we got seats about 15 rows up from 3 yrd line where Dyson near the endzone where Dyson Stretches later inthe game.
After the game, we are off the tryto get into the afterparty. The hotel is 30 minutes away and when we get their it is harder to get in thier than into the superbowl. I noticed that you need to have a bracelet to get in to the party. Well we couldn't get a hold of Vermeil for obvious reasons...All of the sudden Vince Vaughn (actor) comes out of the party w/ 3 babes hotter than ever. He is going home. He gives us his bracelets.
When we get in, it is UNFKNBELIEVABLE !!!! WALL TO WALL BABES, ALL KINDS OF FOOD, OPEN BAR ETC.....
ITs now about 2am and I call my wife and I tell her the story and she hangs up on me. I ran out of film & I was at this party. I go up to the bartender, give him a $20 for a magic marker.
I go up to: Dick Vermeil, Ron Jaworski, Torry Holt, Roland Williams, London Fletcher & Ricky Proehl for autographs. (Marshall doesn't sign, Kevin Carter doesn't either & Kurt Warner was not even there, must have been praying or something )
We party until 5am. I have the autographed hat above my desk with all of their names. I AM A DIE-HARD eagles fan. GO EAGLES
