Super Bowl brings out wackiness in classifieds

It's Super Bowl week, so just about everything is magnified, even the usual wackiness on Craigslist.

Thanks to thefootballgirl.com, we get to see just how wacky some of the classified ads are from those planning to be in New Orleans for the big game.

A sampling:

"Looking for media guys ONLY, who are covering the Super Bowl. I am house sitting for a friend for 3 weeks and want to have some fun. ... I am 21, petite, in great shape, brown hair, green eyes. Like I said, love you media sport guys ... like tall, good shape ... single or married doesn't matter."

Sports writers have groupies? Must be looking for TV guys.

"We are 4 fun successful guys in our mid 30s-mid 40s looking for 4 girlfriends to party with the weekend of the Super Bowl. We will be staying downtown fri-Mon. There are no expectations you will have to satisfy. All expenses paid for a night or nights of drinking dancing and whatever else the night brings."

Yeah, no expectations. Everything will be paid for, but it's OK if we all shake hands at the end of the evening.

"Any guy/gal out there with an extra ticket looking to take one of the cutest, most fun, and entertaining maryland girls in town to the game? Telling ya, i'm prime rib and the others are just bologna :) just graduated college, was an NCAA athlete, keep in shape, witty, sassy, and sweet. Definitely the hot girl next door."

Another NCAA athlete apparently going pro in something other than sports.

"Local professor with deep inside knowledge of and love for New Orleans, its quirks, history, and culture is available 24 hours to advise, guide, drive anywhere in the Gulf South during Super Bowl weekend.

"Interested in music, food, drink, restaurants, bars, shopping, architecture, art, neighborhoods, cemeteries, spirituality, Mardi Gras, Cajun, Anne Rice, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Treme, Marigny, Bywater, Lower 9th, Gospel music, Rebirth, Shorty, oysters, crawfish, andouille, microbrews, sazeracs, ramos gin fizzes, sailing, biking, walking, nature, history, culture?"

OK, we don't know much of what the "college professor" referred to, but we at Leftovers are pretty certain he/she (probably he) is interested in being something other than a local guide.

Makes us feel good to live in sleepy little Las Vegas, where nothing crazy ever happens.

■ WHY IS THAT RED LIGHT ON? - It's probably in every ESPN analyst's contract to mention Tim Tebow at least twice a day on air.

Mark Schlereth and Hannah Storm apparently were discussing the New York Jets' backup quarterback Monday, but this time they didn't realize the camera was rolling.

"He's like a tight end, H-back," Schlereth said to Storm. "He's not a quarterback. I'll tell you, I talked to a bunch of Broncos coaches, and they're like, 'I just don't know if he's a fluid enough athlete to play tight end.' They said he doesn't catch the ball naturally, either."

Interesting, but really not controversial. It's not like Schlereth said something that wasn't already evident to the mass majority of NFL fans.

But for an ESPN personality to criticize Tebow so bluntly would be like someone praising President Barack Obama on Fox News or a shout out to the tea party on MSNBC.

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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL