Johnette Howard and Christine Brennan

Hey Chris--

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Glad your trip to Jacksonville Sunday for the AFC championship game got you acquainted with the Tennessee Titans. But I can't wait for America to get acquainted this week with Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the St. Louis Rams, the other team in Sunday's Super Bowl. Did you see Georgia yesterday when they made the trophy presentation to her on national TV? She was--I swear--yodeling. Just yodeling for joy.

I knew women would change football if we were ever let in the corridors of power. I just didn't know how. And now we know: Yodeling. Now I see even bigger things for Georgia. She's the bomb! She's about to become the NFL's It Girl. She's fabulous! Sort of the Zsa Zsa Gabor of sports owners. Big blond hair. Chanel suits.

I bet her skybox has a chandelier dripping with crystal prisms and that she watches the game with one of those dust-mop dogs on her lap and sips Campari at halftime.

I hope for the Super Bowl she makes the offensive linemen carry her into the stadium on a litter, like Cleopatra. Maybe the Rams wide receivers could fan her with palm fronds, and she could announce she's using her Hollywood connections to get Rams quarterback Kurt Warner, this year's kid from nowhere, cast as some action hero. (I know just the venue, too: Orlando. Orel Hersheiser, the Dodgers baseball pitcher, is putting Ben Hur on stage there this winter as, uh--a musical. He swears it can work as family entertainment; I fear it'll be a disaster for the ages, sort of a Neopolitan version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. But if Georgia could deliver Kurt, why, I feel confident they'd find a part for Georgia--maybe a big soliloquy/yodeling scene.)

And I know she'd do it. It could be a meaty role. She'd have creative control. And if I'm not mistaken there's a Joan & David shoe outlet there. What's not to like?

Anyway, that's my dream for Super Bowl week, which has grown a bit predictable and dreary over the years. What's yours? Do you have any predictions how this week or the game might go? I think Vegas is already offering an early over-under on how many IVs Dick Vermeil, the tear-squirting Rams coach, will need to rehydrate himself if St. Louis wins the whole thing. And I hear the Tennessee team is going to cut a rap version of Rocky Top.

Can't wait!

Johnette

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