Would someone be willing to give me a brief catch-up for the Super Bowl tonight?

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56. Now imagine a born&bred NYC'r, a big U2 fan starting in '80, who fell in love with The Towers...

(me) because she spent nearly a year there Sept '80 - Aug'81 on the 73rd floor in the NE corner office with such amazing views (and some cool co-workers) who watched that haft-time show! Very meaningful.

Actually before that they played ?4 dates in Oct '01 at MSG; they didn't cancel their tour.

Well... It was the first time I ever searched on-line for tickets (imagine being a newbie doing that)! At least I'd been on line since late '95.
I had to be there for first show. I got a ticket just 3 hours before the show!

Well, basically most of the audience to including me yelled, and sang, and danced through almost all the songs. Especially City of Blinding Lights partly written for NYC. Edge said when they walked on stage the roar of the crowd was like nothing they'd ever heard before.

It was also very moving that before the show at some point they visited what was then the "viewing platform" that had been built for people to get as close as they could at that point to see for themselves what happened. (I considered it, and all my later visits like bearing witness)

A fan I met some years later who was at the MSG show but much closer said when they played at times she could see tears running down their faces.

Way later I thought to watch Prince's half time show. That was great, too.