Super Bowl XLV Stripper Shortage

As if it has not been bad enough, with the snow, the ice, the ICE (seizing t-shirts), flight cancellations, blocked interstates, and the ESPN Sundance Square radio meltdown. Now we find out that DFW is experiencing the greatest STRIPPER SHORTAGE in Super Bowl history!

Following the lead of the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the fan favorite pre-game activities is running the TD bar circuit. North Texas has been looking for more than a few good women this Super Bowl week.  Strippers, mainly.

TMZ.com reported that the strip clubs surrounding Cowboys Stadium had been looking for an additional 10,000 girls to entertain the many men expected for the Packers-Steelers big game week.

Arlington city officials are expecting 300,000 visitors this weekend.

John Walsh, the manager of one local strip club, Showtime Cabaret, told TMZ he was looking for another 100-120 dancers for the weekend.

But visitors, need not worry.  Quality still trumps quantity at the DFW stip clubs.  “I mean we’re not just hiring anyone,” one woman who answered the phone at the club said. “They have to meet the right criteria.”

Apparently, many of the strippers who regularly make the Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas Convention circuit, failed to show up this week.  Some had transportation problems and many simply decided they could make more money in Vegas this week, due to much lower “overhead”, according to WOLF “sources”.

Speaking of no shows, both Prince and Snoop Dog skipped out on their sponsored parties last night.  No explanation provided to the suckers who forked out thousands of dollars for “exclusive VIP tickets”.

Bill Lively, chairman of the North Texas Super Bowl Committee has been on TV all week talking-up Jerry World.  Lively believes the “Cowboys Stadium” experience is going to be so overwhelming, that it will trump the many disappointments of the week.  Lively believes the NFL plans on bringing the Super Back to Arlington early and often.  His committee is already working on their next presentation!

Good luck with all that, Bill.

Update on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 9:33PM by Bonzer Wolf

Firefighters from the city of Arlington Fire & Rescue Department are removing snow from the roof of Cowboys Stadium.  The Chief said that this is a public safety issue and that he expects his Department will work through the night, removing snow and ice from the top of the $1 billion dollar facility. 

Arlington is bending over backwards for the NFL in hopes of landing Super Bowl L in five years.

FOX 4 Dallas will begin Super Bowl Coverage at 6 a.m. Sunday morning.  The VLV Live (45 live) coverage will run without interruption for at least 15 hours.  This reporter would prefer to watch Fox Force Five (See Pulp Fiction for reference).

Not So Super Snow Bowl XLV

Falling ICE Injures 5 at Cowboys Stadium

At least five people were hurt, one critically, by ice falling at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, this afternoon. The sun began to shine for the first time since Tuesday, causing the ice to fall, according to reports from the local television crews on the scene.

Large sheets of ice began sliding from the stadium roof in the early-afternoon hours as patchy sun began shinning on the winter-whipped city.  Joint Incident Command confirms all five victims have been transported to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.

Emergency managers have now cordoned off a safety perimeter of about 85 feet around the stadium.

Wintry weather arrived in the North Texas region on Tuesday, when an ice storm glazed most of the area.  The ice has lingered as freezing temperatures persisted throughout the week and then as many as 6 inches of snow fell on North Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, early Friday morning.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service extended its winter storm warning for North Texas until 4 p.m. Friday, saying snow is likely to continue but should end by mid-afternoon.

From Fort Worth to Forney, Denton to Duncanville, and most points in between, residents and Super Bowl XLV visitors are boot-deep in some of the worst winter weather to hit this area in memory.

Many have speculated that the weeklong winter storm has hurt North Texas’ chance of landing another Super Bowl. If that’s true, the icy accident likely won’t help matters.

Falling Ice at Cowboys Stadium Injures 5 : MyFoxDFW.com

Oncor Rolls out Blackouts for the First Time Ever in North Texas

Oncor is initiating rolling blackouts throughout Dallas-Fort Worth and the rest of Texas this morning.  This is because of heavy load caused by icy conditions and extreme cold . WBAP is reporting that this is the first time north Texas has ever experienced a rolling blackout in winter or summer.  This reporter has lived in the metroplex for over thirty years and this is the first rolling power blackout that I have experienced.

Oncor said the blackouts would be temporary, lasting about 15 minutes at a time and it advised customers to only report outages that exceed that time frame.  WOLF headquarters, located 12 miles south of Cowboys Stadium experienced a 30 minute blackout from 8:00-8:30 a.m. this morning.

Television New outlets in the metroplex have received reports from viewers of outages lasting well over an hour. Thousands of home owners in north Texas have swimming pools with exposed above ground pipes leading to the filtration system.  With current temperatures of 15 degrees, water can freeze in about 30 minutes, when the pump stops running, due to the power blackouts.

As of about 7:30 a.m. Oncor was reporting nearly 43,000 problem outages, not related to the rolling blackouts, in the Dallas metro area and about 1,000 in the Fort Worth metro area.

Cowboys Stadium is reportedly receiving enough electricity to power a medium sized city, which is not helping the situation.  The stadium is being kept at 68 degrees and the lights are being kept on for tours, NFL workers and security personnel who are working around the clock inside the stadium.  Overnight temperatures dropped to single digits in Arlington.

Critical need customers such as hospitals and nursing homes will generally not be included, according to Oncor.  It is not clear how long the rotating outages will last.

Most schools and Federal offices are shut down today, as they were yesterday. 

Oncor urges customers to reduce electricity use to the lowest level possible.

• Limit electricity usage to only what is absolutely necessary. Turn off all unnecessary lights, appliances and electronics.
• Businesses should minimize the use of electric lighting and electricity-consuming equipment as much as possible.
• Large consumers of electricity should consider shutting down or reducing non-essential production processes.

ICE BOWL XLV

Sleet and snow started falling in North Texas early this morning. The frigid wintry mix will continue across the Metroplex through 11:00 a.m. 

The heaviest sleet and snow will occured in the western sections of the Metroplex, including Tarrant County and Denton County. These areas received three to four inches of snow on top of a layer of ice.

Expect dangerously cold temperatures all day today, as the temperatures drop from the low 20’s to 10 degrees by 6 p.m. Winds are gusting to 45 mph. Wind chills will be 0 degrees this afternoon.

North Texas will see cold weather through the rest of the week. Temperatures will stay below freezing until Saturday. High temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday will only be in the 20s, with low temperatures below 10 degrees each morning.

DFW Airport has not recorded a single digit temperature in 15 years.  DFW has not recorded consecutive lows in the single digits on two consecutive days in 22 years. There is a small chance of snow on Friday, especially for the southeastern counties of north Texas.

Super Bowl weekend should be dry and slightly warmer, with temperatures in the 40s and 50s.



Update on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 10:31AM by Bonzer Wolf

ICE, frozen water not the lame federal agency, is making for extremely hazardous driving conditions throughout the DFW metroplex.  KXAS reports that 15 semi-trailer trucks have wrecked, shutting down I-35E at Pleasant Run Road.

All area schools and many businesses, including most government offices are shut down for the day.  However, Super Bowl media day started on time inside Cowboys Stadium on time at 10:00 a.m.  Local police escorted team buses from Fort Worth and Irving along icy but virtually empty highways.

The ESPN Radio set in Fort Worth’s Sundance Square is experiencing technical difficulties.  The live shows are being broadcast from inside the Renaissance Hotel.  The outdoor ESPN television studio has not been affected by the weather.