Updated: June 5, 2013, 3:50 PM PT
Ball in …
As some of you know, I’ve spent 20-plus years in the entertainment business, toiling under the number-one guiding principal behind protecting the studio/network bottom line, i.e., “always maintain control, leaving nothing to chance.” Thus, we have the advent of the sound stage; to protect against outside influences, as well as productions being shot predominantly in Southern California, due to the region’s lack of annual precipitation and rainfall.
How’s that for specious rationale, if not pabulum?
Now …
As a matter of full disclosure allow me to introduce my contrarian side.
I do not believe the power outage that hit Super Bowl XLVII was accidental or coincidental. And although I have no inside information to suggest otherwise, I rely on the principal of controlling one’s product, and thus, one’s bottom line as my only evidence. The blowout that was developing would have cost the NFL untold millions in viewers and monies had Baltimore not been corralled, thereby allowing the young 49ers to regroup. In my mind, pulling the power plug served this purpose, and the end result speaks for itself.
That said …
