{"id":11088,"date":"2012-02-13T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=11088"},"modified":"2012-02-13T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:00:02","slug":"anybody-ready-for-more-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=11088","title":{"rendered":"Anybody Ready for More Football?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Maybe it’s because a week after the Super Bowl, I’m already in football withdrawal…but after a little arm-twisting I convinced my better half (and I do mean better) that we should write about a cruise with a football theme today.<\/p>\n

It leaves New York<\/a> for England on May 8, and it’s a re-positioning cruise for Crystal.<\/a> The Symphony<\/a> (above) stops in Newfoundland and Iceland and Denmark and Norway before disembarkation in Dover.<\/a><\/p>\n

Along the way \u2014 and the way lasts 16 days \u2014 three football legends and a referee (sorry, referees never attain legendary status) will be taking part in an “Ocean Views” panel discussion and “sharing inspiring personal stories.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Two of the four are coaches:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Don Shula (left), who spent almost all his Hall of Fame career in Miami and coached in three Super Bowls and won twice, with the Dolphins;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dick Vermeil (right), who also coached in three Super Bowls and won twice, with Philadelphia and Kansas City.<\/p>\n

The other legend is Larry Csonka, half of the backfield that powered the Dolphins to a still-unprecedented 17-0 record in 1973 and, like the coaches, a Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

The referee is Jim Tunney, an icon among the men who wear striped shirts, and the only NFL referee ever to work in consecutive Super Bowls.<\/p>\n

The four of them will have a captive audience as they cross the Atlantic, or maybe the audience will have the four of them captive. Says Bret Bullock, Crystal’s vice president of entertainment: “All travelers on board can glean powerful coaching and playing tips for whatever game they’re trying to win in life.”<\/p>\n

Maybe, but for the football fan, it’s all about the stories.<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span>
\nHolland America Oosterdam<\/a>
\n7 nights
\nMarch 10, 2012
\nSan Diego<\/a> (return): Puerto Vallarta,<\/a> Cabo San Lucas<\/a>
\nInside $549
\nwww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe it’s because a week after the Super Bowl, I’m already in football withdrawal…but after a little arm-twisting I convinced my better half (and I do mean better) that we should write about a cruise with a football theme today. It leaves New York for England on May 8, and it’s a re-positioning cruise for… Continue reading Anybody Ready for More Football?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[804,72,227,795,23,754,230,321,148],"class_list":["post-11088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-crystal-cruises","tag-crystal-symphony","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-oosterdam","tag-nfl-celebrity-cruise","tag-theme-cruises","tag-transatlantic-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}