Super Bowl Careens Into Town
Greetings Miami visitor end of January beginning February...if you're here for the Da Bearrss against Peyton Manning and the Indiannapolis Colts, you know the stakes--World Supremacy! If you happen to be in town for any other sundry reason--look out! It is major crunch time here in The Magic City, and you will be forced to be reactive versus proactive....the streets are crowded and the rates are high but persevere because we only live once, huh? Am I right, here? 'Cuz right on the heels of the Biggest Sporting Event in the World comes the Miami Boat Show--indeed, the temporary docks are going up as I type and the "tent" (actually a steel-frame exhibition hall) is rising in the parking lot of the Miami Beach Convention Center...spirits are high and the money and adult beverages are flowing and everyone who is anyone has to get out and mingle a little and feel a part of the "Event"--including the usual hustlers, women of loose morals, wanna-be's, and flotsam and jetsam of modern life!
Today let's concentrate on the Super Bowl; the teams should arrive over the weekend and generally stay in Broward, close to Dolphin Stadium, which is located on the Dade-Broward County Line twenty miles north of downtown Miami and add ten minutes if you're staying on "the Beach" (as you should be)...in the past it's been the Diplomat or Ambassador...the lobbies of the team hotels are open to everyone (more or less, depending on restrictions) and the teams will have several public functions...I don't know where they go when they're in the Fort Lauderdale but if they're on South Beach away from the team athletes will prefer Prime 112, the Steakhouse South of Fifth Street, and any of the big clubs, including but not limited to Opium, Cameo, B.E.D, Club Cristal, and various promoted shindigs...just keep a weather eye peeled and be open to the possibility of Football Heroes showing up anywhere, anytime to grab a latte or scarf a burger before they rush back to some function....if you've kids check out the NFL Interactive Camp outside Dolphin Stadium, formerly Joe Robbie, the man who kept the Dolphins here by using his money (GASP!) to build a stadium, instead of public funding...his reward? Bankruptcy! The Best Damn Sports Show will be taping at the Sagamore Hotel 1717 Collins Ave 4-6 PM Mon thru Fri all week long...anywhere near there should be pretty happening...more in a little bit...
