Are you ready for some football?
ABC hopes you are. The network will carry the Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs game on Monday night, Sept. 26.
Fans will get 45 seconds on live TV that night. The Broncos hope we go nuts. ABC wants the 76,273 Bronco faithful to shout in unison “ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?”
And that’s not all. The U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon will perform during halftime, the Wings of Blue parachute team will drop on the field before the game – and castmembers of “Wicked” are in town and in talks to sing the national anthem.
Good luck to the witches. Last year, the Rockettes were down to kick during halftime at the Nov. 28 Sunday-night game against Oakland. It was a blizzard, and the Rockettes didn’t dare put a foot on the stage. The Broncos went on to lose a heartbreaker, 25-24.
Meanwhile, the 2006 Denver apheerleader Calendar is out. And how! Cheerleader boss Teresa Shear says the 34 women went to Cabo San Lucas in three shifts for the shoot in June. (How come when I’m in Cabo it’s always a Mary Kay convention?) On the calendar cover, boosters Romi Bean, Holly Baack and Kelly Troester are wearing bikinis cut from the jerseys of Jake Plummer, John Lynch and Rod Smith. The guys never looked better.
Tell Lara
Denverite Lara Merriken started making LaraBars in her kitchen. Now she’s selling millions of the all-natural energy bars.
In 2003, she sold $400,000 worth of the bars. This year she’s looking to sell $6 million to $8 million worth.
“It’s pretty exciting,” she says. “I wasn’t expecting it to grow this quickly.”
It’s about to grow even quicker. LaraBars have been mentioned in plenty of newspapers and magazines, but they’re featured in the September issue of O, the Oprah magazine – where Dr. Katz says for a non-candy snack, LaraBars rule.
Give a hoot
Catch the Hooters Swimsuit Pageant on Fox Sports Network Monday night – and look for Aimee Chuhaloff, Miss Hooters Colorado, from the Colorado Springs Hooters at Citadel Mall.
And don’t miss Amy Adams in the new movie “Junebug.” She’s been called “the best actress you’ve never heard of” and the best thing in the movie. Adams grew up in Castle Rock, acted in local productions at Country Dinner Playhouse and Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. And she was a waitress at Hooter’s in Denver.
City spirit
And the beat goes on – and on. Medtronic, the maker of automated external defibrillators, is the sponsor of James Taylor’s summer tour, which stopped at Coors Amphitheatre Friday night … “Cheers”‘ Norm, George Wendt, is in Denver Sept. 1 looking for Denver beer experts for Samuel Adams. Location TBA … Parallel Seventeen, the sure-to-be-hip Vietnamese bistro and bar from Becky Miller and Mary Nguyen, is set to open this week at East 17th Avenue and Franklin Street … Sez who: “The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.” Lady Astor
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
