ESPN rebroadcast the “Greatest Game Ever Played” (the 1958 Colts-Giants NFL Championship) recently, and I guess that’s a reason for old people to look back on their lives and remember when they weren’t frail and smelly.  The Baltimore Examiner turned its lens on Marge Schmidt and Doris Snyder, 82-year-old twins who were majorettes for the Colts at the time.

With just a few minutes left, Snyder, who snuck a bottle of champagne into the game, popped the cork, and the majorettes and band members began passing it around.

“We thought it was over,” Snyder said, remembering how cold it was passing the bottle. “We figured we might as well get an early start [with drinking].”

I like where that’s going.  Unfortunately, the story from there is about a bronzed pair of cheerleading boots, not a three-way with Alan Ameche.  Keep that in mind the next time someone says the old days were better.  Seriously.  If it was really the greatest game ever played, how come it wasn’t shot in HD?

[The Pro Cheerleader Blog]