WE HAVE LOTS OF PHOTOS!
Who cares about the Super Bowl game?
Ada already did the Super Bowl. The night before.
It was the first-ever Made In Ada Wilson Football Festival.
A midnight Wison Football drop from the Ada depot, plus a Saturday afternoon and evening of Super Bowl previews, a free football movie, tailgating and a 51-football give-away brought hundreds of fans to downtown.
It packed Ada's restaurants and proclaimed to North America that it's really a small town named Ada that makes the foootball go 'round.
The Icon was there taking photos, videos and talking to people.
Please enjoy the following selection of photos from Icon photographers Monty Siekeman, Ken Collins and Fred Steiner.
PHOTOS
• Videographers record the scene as the crowd of more than 500 cheers when the 10-foot long football touches ground at midnight.
• Happiness reigns, the football landed...let the game begin!
• Kissing is part of the ball drop in Times Square, so why not in Ada when the football drops at midnight to usher in Super Bowl Day. Dan Musci and Clara Huffman smooch.
• Winners of the Wilson L1 Super Bowl football, Howard and Beth Fenton. He is a professor of law, and she is a member of the Village Council. A $400 cooler was also part of the Super prize.
• Blue Grass music at Center on Central
• Rollo, a six-year-old Great Dane, and "Dad" (Chris Hananbacher) enjoy the tailgate party at the Depot.
• Coaches panel
• Ada Theatre marquee
