Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Super Bowl Media Day Fun
Giants Punter Jeff Feagles, 41, is so old, "When he punts, he farts dust." So says Giants defensive end Michael Strahan.
When asked if she could marry him, Tom Brady replied to a so-called reporter in a wedding dress: "I have a few Ms. Bradys in my life ... I'm a one-woman man." (This week maybe.)
And thus another Super Bowl Media Day is in the books out in Arizona. The event is much more for the late-night comedy talk shows than the sports writers of the world these days with Jay Leno, David Letterman and others sending crews to the desert.
The players have two more media sessions when they'll answer more serious questions coming on Wednesday and Thursday. There is no other event other than the Super Bowl that spends so much time promoting itself, and that is why the game seldomly lives up to the hype.
Everybody in the Super Bowl has somebody in the media covering them. All local stations from major metropolitan areas tend to go to the big game because odds are good somebody on one of the two team rosters is from their area.
We are priviledged to have several folks from the D.C. area in this year's game, including former Howard University star Geoff Pope.
So that is why 4,800 media members are credentialed for the events associated with one 60-minute football game.
When you think about it this way, Super Bowl is the perfect name for an event like this. You throw a super amount of people into a big bowl and stir it up.
When asked if she could marry him, Tom Brady replied to a so-called reporter in a wedding dress: "I have a few Ms. Bradys in my life ... I'm a one-woman man." (This week maybe.)
And thus another Super Bowl Media Day is in the books out in Arizona. The event is much more for the late-night comedy talk shows than the sports writers of the world these days with Jay Leno, David Letterman and others sending crews to the desert.
The players have two more media sessions when they'll answer more serious questions coming on Wednesday and Thursday. There is no other event other than the Super Bowl that spends so much time promoting itself, and that is why the game seldomly lives up to the hype.
Everybody in the Super Bowl has somebody in the media covering them. All local stations from major metropolitan areas tend to go to the big game because odds are good somebody on one of the two team rosters is from their area.
We are priviledged to have several folks from the D.C. area in this year's game, including former Howard University star Geoff Pope.
So that is why 4,800 media members are credentialed for the events associated with one 60-minute football game.
When you think about it this way, Super Bowl is the perfect name for an event like this. You throw a super amount of people into a big bowl and stir it up.
Posted at 1:27 PM by Jeff Greenberg
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