Selling dreams for dollars

“Jimmy; was it dead mother, blind father or blind mother, dead father?”

The legendary yell for clarification, addressed to Oakland Raiders quarterback Jim Plunkett before the 1981 Super Bowl, by a reporter anxious to cross the Ts on another inspirational story.

As it happens both Plunkett’s parents were blind, only his father was dead. The flippancy of the query still stands as a symbol of the cynicism of Super Bowl week.