Don Mischer Quotations

It's tight. We're in the middle of something that's more important than what we do. We're in the middle of a football game.

People look at what we do and call us stress junkies. You just say to yourself, 'If I'm going to fall on my butt, what better place to do it than in front of a billion people?

The Super Bowl certainly pays respect to the host city, but it's certainly bigger than the host city.

With Paul McCartney last year in Jacksonville, the decisions had all been made early, he'd rehearsed it many, many times, and as a result, it was a very clean kind of coverage. Here, it's a very different kind of group. You don't necessarily know what they're going to do. There's more moving around, more raw energy, more unpredictability. There's no question that's going to make my job more difficult.

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.