But that artificial atmosphere at the Super Bowl is why so many of the championship games are branded so much deeper in memory, for better or for worse, than most Super Bowl games.
While Marty Blake, the N.B.A.'s director of scouting, is referring to the 2001 draft as one of the deepest in memory -- "especially for centers, which come along about every 20.5 years," Blake, the 74-year-old draftnik, said -- several team executives wonder if their picks will not be second-guessed within a few years.
So I began to dig deep in my memory, and once I started, I found the beginning of the ball of thread, where to start.
I don't have to dig very deep in my memory to pull up countless images of people I've witnessed in excruciating, seemingly never-ending agony.
Michael Jackson's life, his damaged childhood and reluctant adulthood, his eccentricities and dark secrets, the rumours and accusations that trailed him and, in the end, must surely have precipitated his premature death, linger too deep in the memory.
Somewhere deep in the memory banks of many people in their 20's and 30's is a recollection of a coconut- and pineapple-flavored family dinner at a place like the Hawaii Kai.
For Emily Barrett, 81, a longtime Garth Road resident, the architectural magic of the Scarsdale Plaza, which technically is a few feet over Eastchester's border, lingers deep in her memory too.
I have my own vision of the capital buried deep in my memory, some time during the few weeks I spent there as a four-year-old, waiting for our Aeroflot flight to London.
Due to the availability bias in human reasoning, things that you learn and even know deep in your memory may not be "top of mind".
So instead of full visions, I caught flashes and tried to embed them deep in my memory so that I would be able to see them for a long time afterward whenever I shut my eyes.
