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Going Off The Grid: Panelists Dish On Super Bowl LII

"Going Off The Grid" is a weekly survey of sports execs and personalities offering their thoughts on a handful of pressing (and trivial) issues in sports and pop culture. This week, we talk all about the Big Game, including favorite halftime performers and some potential unlikely heroes. 

  • FanDuel CMO Mike Raffensperger
    -- Thinks pop culture is the petri dish of the human experience.
  • Warriors VP/HR Gracie Mercado 
    -- Her pop culture diet consists of sports, Twitter and bitmojis.
  • Marquee Sports & Entertainment Managing Dir Allen Hermeling
    -- Has a strong interest in pop culture.
  • The Sports Facilities Advisory VP/Business Development & Marketing Ashley Whittaker
    -- Her pop culture interests consist of memes and YouTube clips.
Going Off The Grid
  Who will be Sunday's unlikely Super Bowl hero? Favorite Super Bowl memory Favorite Super Bowl halftime show performer Ideal Super Bowl matchup Sunday's prediction

Raffensperger
LeGarrette Blount's agent David Tyree's catch against the Patriots Bruno Mars Giants-Patriots Patriots, 31-24 (ugh)

Mercado
The dog masks Tyree's helmet catch! Aerosmith, NSYNC, Britney Spears Giants-Jets Eagles, 28-24

Hermeling
Stephon Gilmore The "Fridge" scoring in Super Bowl XX Aerosmith, NSYNC, Britney Spears

Bears-Steelers

Patriots, 27-20

Whittaker
The referee who performs the coin flip, obviously Let's just say it involved guacamole Paul McCartney singing "Hey Jude." Classic

As long as someone else cooks and hosts the party!

Wait, who's playing?

Do you want to get your thoughts in the Grid? If so, shoot an e-mail to jcarpenter@sportsbusinessdaily.com.

 

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