A Super Phenomenon

Present-day football and the Super Bowl phenomenon are what they are thanks primarily to Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request).
 
Dickinson invented…
 

• The marching band
• The half-time spectacle
• The 16 ounce red cup for beer
• The concession stand
• The hotdog (and third cousin Emily Dickinson developed the first recipe for nachos)

 
To be honest, about the only thing about the Super Bowl that is not associated with America’s greatest poet is the presence of television commercials! 

Pictured at the right:  One of Emmett Lee Dickinson's more ispectacular half-time show extravaganzas was when he arranged to burn down the field house at the Princeton vs. Bryn Mawr homecoming game.

Below on the left:  Emmett Lee Dickinson’s tribute to Super Bowl half-time shows. 

Below on the right:  Dickinson’s poem inspired third cousin Emily to write “The Day grew small, surrounded tight.”

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
The Game grew small, surrounded right
By early, stooping Night –
The Super Bowl in Evening deep
Its Yellow halftime dropt –
The Songs went out their partial ways
The Lead did jam with stars –
Chris Martin jumped the famed Left Shark
On stage with Bruno Mars –

By Emily Dickinson:
 
The Day grew small, surrounded tight
By early, stooping Night –
The Afternoon in Evening deep
Its Yellow shortness dropt –
The Winds went out their martial ways
The Leaves obtained excuse –
November hung his Granite Hat
Upon a nail of Plush –