Hope you Seattle Seahawks fans enjoyed the 43-8 whipping of the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII last Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Do you remember the halftime show, featuring Grammy Award-winning artist Bruno Mars and The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Well, a woman named Jill Walker Satren lives right here in Coeur d'Alene, works as a certified hand specialist at Northern Idaho Hand Rehabilitation in Hayden, and whose father produced the halftime show for Super Bowl I, IV and VII.

Those were totally different shows back then.

Just log on to YouTube.com and type in 'Super Bowl I halftime show', 'Super Bowl IV halftime show' and '1984 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies' and you'll see the work of Tommy Walker, who died at the age of 63 on Oct. 20, 1986, and lived enough for more than a few lifetimes.

TOMMY WALKER, born Nov. 8, 1922, in Milwaukee, Wis., is considered one of the forefathers of the Super Bowl halftime show and he also produced the opening cerermonies in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif., the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and the 1984 Summer Olympics.

He was Disneyland's first musical director, helped with the opening ceremonies for Disneyland in 1955. He did this after spending years as the band director at the University of Southern California, where "Tommy the Toe" was both the drum major and the placekicker. One minute he'd be in the stands leading fight songs, then the next he'd rush onto the field to kick extra points.

In 1948, the Washington Redskins offered him a tryout, but instead he chose to become the assistant band director and later band director at USC.

While there, Walker was credited with a six-note trumpet sound, "Da-da-da-DAH-da-DAH", to which the crowd yelled "Charge!" Today's it's one of the most recognized cheers in sports.

Walker also joined the Army in 1942 as a scout, earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

Walker worked at Disneyland for 12 years as the Director of Pageantry, and created fireworks above the castle - growing up in nearby Yorba Linda, my parents and I always knew it was 9:30 p.m. because of the Disneyland fireworks show - Tinker Bell descending along a wire from the Matterhorn.

In fact, he produced pregame and halftime festivities for Super Bowl I, in 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, when Walker Satren was 16 years old. At the time, the NFL gave Walker a budget of $2,000 to produce the halftime show. According to a recent article in Sports Illustrated, then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle told Walker at the time, "Why would we spend all that money? That's when everybody goes to the bathroom."

WHETHER THAT statement of Rozelle's was really true or not at the time, Walker helped give fans a reason to stick around during halftime.

According to several publications, Walker hired Louisiana-based musician Al Hirt to play the first halftime show, titled "Super Sights and Sounds", Hirt performed as the band leader.

Performing with the University of Arizona marching band, Hirt performed songs like "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" and the halftime ceremony had a pair of 'rocket men' who were propelled by jetpacks who blasted from the floor of the stadium. The band formation depicted two huge players, each kicking a football. The two teams, the Green Bay Packers from the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs from the American Football League, were meeting each other for the first time, the rocket men 'shook hands' with the band's formations' formed 'players' under the song "Getting to Know You." The show ended with the release of 10,000 balloons.

The NFL-AFL merger happened in 1970.

"I attended the first one," Walker Satren said of Super Bowl I. "It was thrilling, a super experience. He was always known for marching bands. He used local talent. He did not have a very large budget. I know it was something. He was such a great national talent. He convinced them (the NFL) to beef up the budget ... patriotism was very close to him."

At the 1984 Summer Olympics, a then-33-year-old Walker Satren was standing right behind her father when he was directing the opening ceremonies.

"He called the shots of the opening ceremonies," Walker Satren said. "He was in a booth near the top of the L.A. Coliseum. Off to the right were all these pianos."

Walker was director of special events for the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane.

Walker Satren is married to Mike Satren, who works in sales for the Northwest Pony Express in Coeur d'Alene, and the two moved here from the Monterey, Calif., area.

"He (my father) brought me to this area in 1974," Walker Satren said of Coeur d'Alene. "I fell in love with this place. The beauty of the mountains, the trees and lack of congestion. In 2003, we moved up here."

Walker Satren has very fond memories of her father, who died when she was 35, two weeks before her 36th birthday. Jill met Walt Disney himself when she was either 12 or 13 years old, in the early 1960s.

"The biggest thing I remember was he (Tommy Walker) would act them (his performances) out in front of us," Walker Satren said. "He'd work on the timing of his music. He got so excited, he always loved what he did. He always had great enthusiasm ... he promoted family entertainment."

WALKER'S SECOND Super Bowl halftime show, on Jan. 11, 1970, at Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, helped establish the "Super Bowl extravaganzas" of future halftime shows. The game was won 23-7 by the Kansas City Chiefs over the Minnesota Vikings.

There were scripted series of production numbers, titled "Way Down Yonder". It featured memorable images of New Orleans' indigenous culture, a tribute to the city's rich jazz heritage and history and a brief reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans, with exploding cannons and people dressed as British redcoat soldiers becoming defeated by people dressed as troops under the command of General Andrew Jackson. There were several local clubs, including the Southern University marching band, complete with a short rendition of a Mardi Gras Parade coming across the football field.

Walker's final Super Bowl halftime show of his career came on Jan. 14, 1973, in Super Bowl VII at the L.A. Coliseum, when the Miami Dolphins completed the only undeafeted season in NFL history by defeating the Washington Redskins, 14-7.

LUCILLE WALKER, Tommy's widow of 28 years who married him in 1983 and who spent 15 years as his assistant, lives in Irvine, Calif. She is Walker Satren's stepmother.

"It was more pageantry, patriotism," Lucille Walker said of Walker's Super Bowl halftime shows. "Bringing local people was big, he had (Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson band leader) Doc Severinsen, all sorts of things that were relevant to that area. With the bands, balloons, pigeons, whatever he did on that particular show. So that's what's missing now."

Today's halftime shows featuring acts like Bruno Mars, or longtime acts like The Rolling Stones or Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, wouldn't necessarily be Walker's style, if he were alive to produce a show today.

"When you watch these halftime shows - they're all bad, to me - you know, the NFL doesn't realize that they have a worldwide audience and this is the image of our country that's shown by these ridiculous halftime shows, like the rock groups and that's not all that America's about ... so be it, they want it. That's the image we're portraying all over the world. To me, it's not a good one."

Lucille said her late husband may be more inclusive and in the New York/New Jersey area, he may have incorporated images of the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and other iconic images of the area.

ASKED IF her late husband would have produced halftime shows siminar to the ones done during the past 20-plus years, Walker replied, "Oh God, no. Not at all. He passed away before all of this. He was a football fan, so I'm sure he watched it (Super Bowls in the early to mid-1980s), but I don't remember if he had any comments on them ... I feel like it (the Super Bowl halftime shows) should be more like our opening ceremonies of the Olympics, not of course as expensive and elaborate now that we do, but it does show off our country and depending on the area where it's held, this one could've been New Jersey and New York. Show us some of the things that go on there, the monuments, but with pageantry. That's what I relate it to, a less expensive opening of the Olympics. There's so much history to our country, why do we have rock bands? But it's become the norm right now."

Not that Tommy Walker wouldn't necessarily dislike everything about the recent shows. Walker Satren said he probably would have enjoyed seeing U2 performing "Where The Streets Have No Name" in 2002 during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVI at the Superdome in New Orleans, while a large lighted list of victims' names of the attacks of 9/11 were scrolled across a giant sheet.

Or on Jan. 27, 1991, before Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Fla., when Whitney Houston sang The Star Spangled Banner in the midst of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq.

Lucille talked about the several accomplishments Walker was a part of in his time.

"He never quit," Lucille Walker said. "He slept about three hours a night. He worked on the 1980 Winter Olympics, the (first) Reagan (presidential) inauguration, he was a part of the celebration of the 350-year anniversary of Harvard University. He never talked about past events, he was always on to the next one. He was loved by everybody. He died during his third open-heart surgery. His first two, it was two weeks (or more of rest), then he was running up the stadium stairs, doing his next project. However, he was a very humble person. He didn't give very many interviews ... he was very patriotic and he wanted to show that from the United States."

For a band and events director that had a career many can only dream of, Tommy Walker has been the stuff of legends. One note and historical event at a time.

Bruce Bourquin is a sports writer at The Press. He can be reached at 664-8176, Ext. 2013, or via email at bbourquin@cdapress.com Follow him on Twitter @bourq25