Funny story from what was a wild Saturday night in Scottsdale. This Phoenix suburb, along with nearby Tempe, home to Arizona State University, is what really feels like the epicenter of the Super Bowl, especially the nightlife festivities. Downtown Phoenix is absolutely dead compared to these bustling towns.

Anyway, we were getting ready to leave an outdoor beer garden in Scottsdale, in time to beat the rush for cabs at closing time, when we saw this guy, dressed in a Doug Flutie jersey, stumbling his way toward us. Clearly overserved, he leaned against the table next to us and brought it crashing to the floor with him. Drinks everywhere. Him sprawled out on the ground. His friends laughing, hardly in a big hurry to help him up. The rest of a still crowded bar couldn't help but notice. He was "that guy," and people got a kick out of his drunken debacle.

The first thought that came to my mind was how Doug Flutie, retired and knee deep in a broadcasting career, would feel if he were here to witness this. The laughingstock of the establishment was wearing his jersey and had just taken a table down with him.

I shared this thought with Darrin, a friend of mine, and fellow PFW scribe Mike Wilkening, who laughed at the thought. Not more than five or 10 seconds passed, and Mike said under his breath, "You're not going to believe this. Look at that table over there." Maybe 15 feet from us, and 20 feet from the drunken fool, was none other than Doug Flutie. He had seen the whole debaucherous event, and so had his friends, who were letting him have it. 

Classic experience I couldn't make up if I tried. The drunken jersey-wearing fan eventually made his way over to the bar and passed Flutie on the way. It was one of those moments I'll never forget and didn't want to end, the two of them coming face to face. Fan looking like he had seen a ghost, Flutie giving him a reluctant but polite greeting. The fan even looked like him a bit physically and was close to the same size (that being pretty small... I have no idea how Flutie saw over the defensive line for so many years).

So that's it. My surreal moment of Super Bowl week. Hope you didn't have to be there to appreciate it.