Interesting Super Bowl XLII Field Fact

The grass the two teams will play on was grown at a sod farm in Alabama and trucked here just after the New Year in 18 refrigerated trucks, then laid directly over the sod that had been used for the Fiesta Bowl. “The Fiesta Bowl field would have been perfectly fine if not for all the wear and tear a Super Bowl field takes,” said Supovitz. “We have all the people on it during Media Day, then some pretty intense practices for the halftime show. So we need a heartier grass.

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Do not wash these jeans for six months

pictureof a pumpkinThese were the peculiar maintenance suggestions for my newly purchased pair of bluejeans, made with raw denim and sold unwashed and untreated so they can form to your body and your daily routine.

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Huckabee Defends Church Fundraising

What surprises me the most about this article is that Fort Worth has a suburb called Newark.  I lived in this area all my life and have never known about that suburb.

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says he did nothing improper by holding a political fundraiser in a Texas televangelist’s church sanctuary last week.

The event, which coincided with Kenneth Copeland’s annual Ministers’ Conference, was held at Eagle Mountain International Church in the Fort Worth suburb of Newark. Preachers from around the country who had gathered in the sanctuary for the religious event stayed for Huckabee fundraiser.

“I made a phone call in and just said hello to them, called in on a speaker phone, said hi and encouraged them, you know. And that was it,” the former Arkansas governor said Tuesday during an interview outside a Tampa polling place. “They told me there was over a thousand of them there. I’m not sure how many because I couldn’t see them. I could only hear them on the phone.” The Trinity Foundation, a Dallas nonprofit that monitors televangelists, says the fundraiser produced $ 111, 000 in donations and about $ 1 million in pledges, but Huckabee said he doesn’t know how much was raised.

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