"They said, 'We need you to throw a pass at halftime, but we can't really tell you more than that until you sign a confidentiality agreement.'. "First I was 'Ivy.' Later I was known as 'On Star.' " "You know, I had some nicknames," Brian says. Typically, it does not attract Dartmouth grads. The league is currently run by a former casino executive. Jon Bon Jovi and members of the band Kiss have owned franchises. It has gimmicky rules designed to increase scoring, and teams have names like the Dragons and Desperados. In case you're not familiar, the Arena Football League is sort of to the NFL what Las Vegas is to New York City. So he made the unusual jump from the Ivy League to the Arena League. As a senior, he set the school record for passing yards in a season.īrian wasn't NFL material, but he didn't want to stop playing football after college. He starred at Dartmouth in the late '90s and early 2000s. And she's scrappy and athletic, and she went out and grabbed that thing, and the rest is history." (Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images)Ībout a decade before he started working for the Rice athletic department, Brian Mann had been a quarterback. And we can't pay you,'" Brian recalls. "So I said, 'I'm in.' "īrian Mann didn't know it at the time, but he'd spent his whole life building the near-perfect resume to help Lady Gaga execute her grand finale. You have to give up your afternoons and evenings every day this week, and we can't tell you exactly what it is you're going to be doing.
"They said, 'We need you to throw a pass at halftime, but we can't really tell you more than that until you sign a confidentiality agreement.
Basically just said, 'I work for the Super Bowl Committee,' and that they'd like to speak with me, and they'd like to do so quickly."īrian knew the Super Bowl was coming up in five days at NRG Stadium - about three miles from the Rice campus - but he had no idea why someone from the Super Bowl Committee would want to talk to him.īrian called back and received a very odd request. And a few hours later I got an email from the same person. "And so I sort of let it alone for a while. "I got a voicemail that didn't really make any sense to me," Brian recalls, chuckling. "And so when did it start to not become a normal day?" I ask.
It was a beautiful day, but not unlike any other that had come before or after it," Brian says. I was communicating with some alumni for Rice.
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