[wordup] "adbusters vs disney" and "man sneaks into superbowl"

[Adam Shand]

Via: Colin Dabritz <dabritz at easystreet.com>
From: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/flag/nyc.html

New York City Billboard

Once upon a time (quite recently, in fact), the good people of Adbusters
received a call from a production assistant for a movie being made by
Miramax, a Disney corporation. It seems the new film needed an
establishing shot of Times Square in New York City. But something was in
the way.

Jiminy Cricket! It's our Corporate America Flag billboard!

Disney gave us three options. We could (a) take the billboard down for a
week or two; (b) cover up the billboard; or (c) change the billboard's
corporate logos back into stars.

We are choosing, (d) none of the above.

The "Disnification" of Times Square has been criticized across America
and around the world, and we don't want any part of it. Still, we are
ordinary human beings with beating hearts (do we not cry when Bambi's
mother dies? oh we do, we do...), so we are prepared to offer a
compromise. We will Disney-fy the flag.

Here's what we've come up with so far, but we're open to ideas. Have a
suggestion? Send it our way at campaigns at adbusters.org.

(In case it isn't obvious you now need to go to the URL to see all their
funny pictures.  -- Adam)

From: http://www.nypost.com/sports/9959.htm

Man Sneaks into 35th of 36 Super Bowls

February 6, 2002 -- IN the end, the greatest security force of them all
was no match for the greatest gate crasher.

Dion Rich, 72, was back home in southern California yesterday, fresh
from his Super Bowl victory. For the 35th time, Rich was able to sneak
into the Super Bowl and this year Rich easily bypassed all the extra
security.

"I consider this my greatest sports crash of all time," Rich told The
Post. Rich has crashed 35 of the 36 Super Bowls. He missed the Jets'
upset of the Colts in Super Bowl III because he went skiing.

Rich wasn't about to miss the Patriots' 20-17 upset of the Rams in Super
Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans even if he had to buy a ticket to the game
like everyone else.

"I thought this would be the hardest Super Bowl to crash," Rich said of
the affair that was designated a National Security Special Event. "I
even bought a ticket in case I was caught, but it turned out to be the
second easiest to crash. Only the first Super Bowl was easier. Once I
got in the building Sunday it took me longer to find a phone than it did
to crash.

"I didn't even have to go past one of those security people with a
wand," Rich said. Asked if it was a bit disconcerting that he could
easily get past so much security in these new times, Rich answered:
"That type of heavy security stops the average bear, but not me."

Rich laughed and added, "I do this for fun, it's a hobby, but maybe the
Secret Service, the CIA and President Bush could use me to help find Bin
Laden."

Rich said he scored a "quadruple hat trick" at this Super Bowl. First,
he bypassed security at one of the headquarter hotels and was mistaken
for an NFL alumni member, which enabled him to get a free pass to a
pregame "Voodoo Barbecue."

Rich then made his way past security checkpoints and slipped into the
Superdome through a side door in a matter of minutes. He found two
emptyhttp://www.nypost.com/sports/9959.htm seats and even came away with
two Super Bowl souvenir seat cushions. He capped his busy day by
crashing the Rams' post-game party.

"That was a little disappointing, though," Rich said. "I was hoping to
get my picture taken with Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk, but they
didn't show. That's the problem when you lose, a lot of players don't
show."

Rich still has his un-ripped Super Bowl XXXVI ticket in the upper deck
in Section 631 as a souvenir. Rich allowed Sports Illustrated's Rick
Reilly to witness this crash, something he has not agreed to do since
the first Super Bowl.

"But back then it was no big deal because I knew the guy at the gate,"
Rich said of that crash. This time, security was everywhere.

Asked if he was concerned about being a marked man now, Rich laughed and
said, "I was a marked man before this. I'm 72 years old now. Someday I
have to stop doing this. But this is my hobby. This keeps me young."

In the first Super Bowl, before they even called it the Super Bowl, Rich
wound up on the podium with winning coach Vince Lombardi. Then in Super
Bowl VI, he helped carry winning coach Tom Landry off the field in
celebration.

After Super Bowl XXIII, when NFL security officials nabbed Rich on the
field, he agreed never to go back onto the field, but he still snuck
into the games.

"After that I branched out to crashing the Academy Awards, the Kentucky
Derby, the Golden Gloves, America's Cup and the Olympics," said Rich,
who is a San Diego ticket broker.