From Jet City to Motor City: More Super Bowl Sidelights

As Seattle poops its collective pants over the impending Super Bowl, we’ve been busy collecting more germane goofiness. To wit...

Bidding has ended for the infamous “Hawk Dog.” After meaningless bids pushed the auction price as high as $10,169.69, it finally sold last night for a still-insane $1,800.00...

At 6:30 tonight, St. James Cathedral is hosting a “Prayer for the City on the Eve of the Super Bowl,” where Catholics will petition Baby Jesus for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Then, on Sunday, several Tacoma-area churches will host clean ‘n’ sober Super Bowl parties...

Lacey's Faith Assembly will turn off the TV during the Rolling Stones halftime show. During their alloted 12 minutes, the Stones’ll undoubtedly play their jock-jam anthem "Start Me Up,” though ABC'll undoubtedly censor its "you make a dead man come" lyric... New York Vinnie flattered Mick Jagger at a Thursday press conference, while the Seattle Weekly noted that “the halftime show always promises something scandalously unfit for kids of all ages... This year it'll be a full close-up of Keith Richards' face"...

We still haven’t heard any Seahawk-esque adaptations of Stones songs, nor have there been any adaptations of songs by any Detroit musicians, despite the city’s insanely rich musical history... Okay, there has been one: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band’s “Like a Rock” was turned into “Hasselbeck” by KZOK's Bob Rivers. He’s also responsible for “My Hawks” (sung to the tune of “My Humps,” by the Black Eyed Peas) and “50 Ways to Beat the Steelers” (sung to the tune of Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”) -- hear ‘em here…