Around noon, on Monday the 6th of February, I was at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, better known as San Jose Airport, to pick up one of my taxi customers. I was feeling unusually nervous. My fare? NFL Ref Bill Leavy.
I knew he had several pieces of luggage so I found a cart and met him inside baggage claim. As we waited by the carousal, I asked him a few noncontroversial questions about the game.
"What did you do at half time?"
"We (the refs) sat in a room. I didn't go out and watch Mick."
"Did you get to keep the coin used for the toss?"
"No, the NFL keeps it."
"Do you have your Super Bowl Ring yet?"
"No, but it will come."
{Some were upset when Roethlisberger's one-yard touchdown run was upheld after video review in the second quarter because they thought the ball didn't cross the plane.} Including my mother.
"So, what about that touchdown call?"--- I asked even though I knew what the answer would be.
Bill told me that he had reviewed the play and that the call was good. The ball had gone over the plane (line) Touchdown! Even though what we saw on TV only showed what came next. Roethlisberger after the score was made.
It is too bad it is not possible for TV coverage to have shown all the replay angles the refs are privy to.
Bill gave me and my husband two wineglasses.
I got my first computer early in the Summer of 2004, and began blogging almost immediately. Thanks to blogging I have been a part of several newspapers and online blogs. By that August I was featured in the lead story of the Tech Section in the San José Mercury News. Then what a pleasant surprise it was to find that my blog, "Taxi Vignettes" was the reason I was chosen as the best local blogger of the year (2006) by the Metro Newspaper. Fall of '06, I was contacted by a reporter, asking if I would be willing to be the topic of her next story in The Willow Glen Resident. It was a cool two pages including photos. Am I having fun yet?
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