The thing about Super Bowl week for those on the scene is it has a little bit of everything for the family, as the Lishers of Lawrence discovered during their trip to Arizona.

Free State High football coach Bob Lisher, wife Diana, daughter Jayme and son Michael, a Firebirds lineman, all attended the Super Bowl, one of the more exciting of the 42 games.

Celebrity-watching was part of the experience. For Bob, that meant putting himself in position to meet an NFL legend. He read in the local newspaper about a golf tournament for retired NFL players. It was there that Lisher chatted up former wide receiver Don Maynard, who wore No. 13 for Joe Namath’s New York Jets.

“I told him I was a Chiefs fan and remembered watching him go against the Chiefs and remembered watching him in Super Bowl III,” Lisher said. “He was a really nice guy, and to me, talking to him was pretty special. My son Michael had no idea who I was talking to.”

For Diana, the thrill came on the golf course. No, she did not fire a hole-in-one, as her mother, Mary Kay Stephens, did this past golf season during a fund-raising golf tournament for the Free State girls basketball program. Diana positioned herself to see her favorite golfer, lefty Phil Mickelson, at work. They parked themselves at the 18th tee box and waited for Mickelson to come around in the FBR Open.

Later in the weekend, Mickelson would play that very 18th one more time than scheduled in a playoff against J.B. Holmes.

Sunday was a day for underdogs to come out victorious in Arizona. Holmes, so long off the tee and so clutch on the green, birdied the 18th hole twice in a row to earn the championship, right about the time Super Bowl XLII kicked off.

Spotting a celebrity was what triggered the biggest reaction from Jayme, according to her father.

“My daughter says, ‘Hey dad, there’s Kendra.’ She tried to tell me who that was,” Lisher said.

So who is Kendra?

“She’ from that TV show, ‘Girls Gone Bad,’ or, no, that’s not it, it’s ‘Girls Next Door,’ I think,” Lisher said.

Kendra, one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends on “Girls Next Door,” smiled and told Jayme she was too busy to pose for a picture.

Hef wasn’t there. Too bad. Lisher could have spoken for millions of men throughout the world without uttering a word to Hefner. Sometimes a simple handshake is worth a thousand words.

Once the playing golf, watching golf and celebrity-spotting was behind them, the Lishers settled in and watched the Super Bowl, using tickets given them by Diana’s father, Bob Stephens, who had the winning bid at a charity silent auction.

“If you like hard-fought defensive games, it was a great game,” Lisher said. “So I really enjoyed it.”

For the longest time, the Super Bowl was a perennial letdown, one or two weeks of hype followed by a dud of a game. Parity has had a hand in changing that. Four of the past seven games have been decided by a three-point margin.

This one had the added good-vs.-evil appeal, given that Giants quarterback Eli Manning shed his reputation as the weak younger brother to lead his team to the winning drive against the dynastic Patriots, penalized earlier in the year for spying.

“The whole thing was a really enjoyable experience,” Lisher said.