Pts, hey, Smarty Pants, you are not going to believe where I am right now.

I'm at the Super Bowl.

Even better, I have an awesome seat with a great view of the entire field.

Whoa, amazing catch.

Now, some of you might be wondering, how can I be at the Super Bowl watching the game,

and yet it's so quiet, except for the propellers?

Propellers? Did I say propellers?

I sure did, because I'm watching this year's Super Bowl from 1,500 feet above the stadium in a giant blimp.

Oh, whoa, oh, oh, excuse me, pal. Would you mind keeping it down a little?

We're trying to get camera shots of the game and the entire TV audience can hear you.

Oops, sorry. Smarty pants. If you've ever watched a big sporting event on TV, or even better, been to one, you've probably

seen a blimp hovering way up high in the sky, getting incredible aerial shots of the action.

Hey, check it out, it's the good year blimp! That's mostly what blimps are used for these days,

but that wasn't always the case.

In fact, blimps have a very interesting history, which I will tell you all about, as soon as I

learn a little bit more about it myself.

Truth be told, I used my teleportation app to beam myself from my seat in the stadium up to

this blimp in order to ask the pilot lots of blimp related questions.

Like, why are they called blimps?

How were they once used by the military?

What was the golden age of blimp travel like?

And why don't people still travel by blimp today?

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